Comprising critical writings in civil-military relations theory and research, this book of essays integrates the ideas and insights drawn from political science, particularly its subfields of comparative politics, theory and methodology both normative and empirical, with those from the combined disciplines of philosophy of science, history, sociology, and development studies, bringing out the relevance of these ideas and insights for understanding and analysing the issues central to the place and role of military in the Nigerian society.
This book will be useful to students, academics, journalists and activists working on Nigeria in particular, and Africa in general.
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Dedication
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
Part One: The Crux of Civil-Military Relations
Chapter 1: The Military Problem in Comparative Political Analysis
Chapter 2: Towards Explaining Civil-Military Instability in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Political Model
Chapter 3: Reforming the Character of Civil-Military Relations for Democratic Governance in Nigeria After 1999
Part Two: Insights from Traditional Political and Military Theory
Chapter 4: Machiavelli and the Military: The Prince and Psychology of Empty Power
Chapter 5: The Military Aspects of Orthodox Marxist Theory of Revolution: A Contextual Analysis
Chapter 6: The “Brawn” versus “Brain” Dispute in Contemporary African Civil-Military History and Thought
Part Three: Styles and Critique of Contemporary Western Political and Military Thinking
Chapter 7: Critique as Method of Inquiry in Political Science in General
Chapter 8: Systematic Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge in Civil-Military Relations
Chapter 9: On the Theory of Modernizing Soldier: A Critique
Chapter 10: The Concept and Problematic of ‘Non-Western Civil-Military Process': Some Methodological Queries
Chapter 11: The Role of Armies in and the Problematics of “State- and/or Nation-Building”: A Critical Review of Theories and Cases
Part Four: Logic of Classification and Comparison in Civil-Military Analysis
Chapter 12: The Fundamentals of Classification
Chapter 13: Methodological Note on Typology of Military Organization and Society
Chapter 14: Military Organization and Federal Society
Part Five: Data Sources, Methods, and Problems about Researching the Military
Chapter 15: Sources and Methods for the Nigerian Military Expenditure Data: A Research Note
Chapter 16: Civil-Military Relations and Public Support for Defense
Chapter 17: Field Research on African Military Organizations
Appendix - Researching “The Nigerian Retired
Military”: The Research Problem, Aims and Objectives/Hypotheses, Data
Sources/Methods
Index
Biography
J. ‘Bayo Adekanye is Nigerian scholar and professor of Political Science. He was a tenured staff of the Department of Political Science, the University of Ibadan before retiring in 2006. He held teaching combined with research and administrative positions in several institutions, including Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; University of Lancaster, England; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; the international peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway; Kogi State University (now renamed Prince Abubakar of Audu University), and Babcock University, Ogun State.
