Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif -- Copyright page / Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif -- Dedication / Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif -- Acknowledgements / Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif -- List of Figures and Tables / Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif -- Chapter 1 Introduction / Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif -- Chapter 2 Civil-Military Relations, SSR, DDR , and Power Sharing / Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif -- Chapter 3 The Lebanese Armed Forces / Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif -- Chapter 4 Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina / Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif -- Chapter 5 The Iraqi Armed Forces / Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif -- Chapter 6 The National Defense Force of Burundi / Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif -- Chapter 7 Armies in Consociational, Semi-Consociational, and Post-Conflict Societies: The Quest for Stability / Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif -- Chapter 8 Conclusion / Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif -- Back Matter -- Bibliography / Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif -- Index / Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif.

Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif critically analyzes civil–military relations and the way armies are constructed in divided societies. To achieve that, the book looks at four case studies with deep divisions and whose armed forces have been reconstructed after civil wars. Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina represent two examples of consociational power-sharing arrangements with functioning armed forces that enjoy wide popular support and neutral in internal affairs. Iraq and Burundi, however, have semi-consociational provisions that have politicized the army and made it a partisan military that has either led to disintegration (as in the case of Iraq) or politicization and loss of legitimacy (as in Burundi).

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