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Democratization And Militarization In West African Sub-region
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However, the military intervention by
ECOWAS has not been totally successful in quelling conflicts, crisis of
regime change and political succession and military intervention into
politics in the West African sub-region and the Africa generally. The
latest of these conflicts in the sub-region which ECOWAS has intervened
are Mali and Guinea Bissau in 2012. The objective has been to restore
democracy by forcing the military back to the barracks or restricting it
to the constitutional role of protecting the territorial integrity from
internal insurrection and external aggression.
But the root causes
of military intervention into politics and crisis of regime change or
political succession are yet to be adequately addressed by the ECOWAS,
for example, issues of legitimacy crisis, poor governance, bad
leadership, political leadership failure, political corruption,
electoral crisis and political violence have been largely left
unattended or ignored. The political conditions in most of the countries
in the sub-region and indeed Africa as a whole are not democracy
friendly or unsuitable for democratization and flourishing of democracy
or demilitarization (Aning and Bah, 2010; Sperling, 2011).
Most
scholars like Nowrot and Schabacker (1998) focus on the legality of
ECOWAS intervention while the likes of Olonisakan (2010) concentrates on
the effectiveness of the military intervention in quelling conflicts
in the West African sub-region.
1.2. Statement of the Problem
The
military intervention by ECOWAS has not been totally successful in
quelling conflicts, crisis of regime change and political succession and
military intervention into politics in the West African sub-region and
the Africa generally. The latest of these conflicts in the sub-region
which ECOWAS has intervened are Mali and Guinea Bissau in 2012. The
objective has been to restore democracy by forcing the military back to
the barracks or restricting it to the constitutional role of protecting
the territorial integrity from internal insurrection and external
aggression.
But the root causes of military intervention into
politics and crisis of regime change or political succession are yet to
be adequately addressed by the ECOWAS, for example, issues of
legitimacy crisis, poor governance, bad leadership, political leadership
failure, political corruption, electoral crisis and political violence
have been largely left unattended or ignored. The political conditions
in most of the countries in the sub-region and indeed Africa as a whole
are not democracy friendly or unsuitable for democratization and
flourishing of democracy or demilitarization (Aning and Bah, 2010;
Sperling, 2011).
Most scholars like Nowrot and Schabacker (1998)
focus on the legality of ECOWAS intervention while the likes of
Olonisakan (2010) concentrates on the effectiveness of the military
intervention in quelling conflicts in the West African sub-region.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study is basically a qualitative research method relying mainly on secondary sources of data from internet sources, official documents and country websites as the method of data collection. We made use of qualitative-descriptive analysis as our method of data analysis, that is, documentary studies of official document and other materials in analyzing the secondary data. The major purpose of embarking on this research is to assess the democratization and militarization in the West African sub ... Continue reading---
