Cumming, Gordon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908, Van Der Velde, Roel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9259-6547 and Chafer, Tony
2024.
Understanding the performance, survival and collapse of African ad hoc military coalitions.
African Security
17
(1-2)
, pp. 87-114.
10.1080/19392206.2024.2366721
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Abstract
This article provides a comparative study of two ad hoc coalitions: the Multinational Joint Task Force, which has endured, and the G5 Sahel Joint Force, which has collapsed. To explain these divergent outcomes, we assess their performance capabilities and review the ‘classic account’ of their (under)performance, which focuses on the role of external support in sustaining coalitions. We then use an organised hypocrisy lens to show how external funding only ensures a coalition’s sustainability if, firstly, political relations between participating countries and between them and donors align; and secondly, the decoupling between discourse and performance does not become too great.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Published Online |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Modern Languages |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
ISSN: | 1939-2206 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 11 June 2024 |
Date of Acceptance: | 7 June 2024 |
Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2024 08:30 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/169755 |
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