1st Edition
Western Intervention and Informal Politics Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms
1. The puzzle of non-cooperative, but existentially threatened regimes
2. Informal politics and regime strategy
3. Chad: turning friends into enemies and enemies into friends
4. Mali: counterinsurgency by clients and patron
5. Iraq: fighting the Islamic State with an unstable alliance
6. Algeria: security institutions fighting for their survival
7. Do politics, organizations, or persons derail reforms?
8. Betting on institutions or persons?
Biography
Troels Burchall Henningsen is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Strategy and War Studies at the Royal Danish Defence College.
'Where Henningsen’s analysis comes to the fore is really the four cases. Here he shows how a specific mix of formal and informal politics may lead to different outcomes of interventions and state building (Algeria does not have an international intervention in the same way as the other case studies), even when the aims of the reforms were similar. The analysis moves on to examine the impact of informal politics, but also the balance of civilian and military organisations within international interventions, as well as the impact of regional politics and power.'
Paul Jackson, International Peacekeeping, August 2023
