The South African Defence Force and Political Reform
| Autor: | Herbert M. Howe |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
Government
National security Sociology and Political Science business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Authoritarianism Political change Ancien regime Democracy Politics Political science Political economy Development economics Interregnum business media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Modern African Studies. 32:29-51 |
| ISSN: | 1469-7777 0022-278X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0022278x00012532 |
| Popis: | South Africa's security establishment, specifically the South African Defence Force (S.A.D.F.), illustrates important linkages between national security and political reform. The military and police influence reconciliation, for better or for worse, in all post-conflict states, especially those experiencing an interregnum between authoritarianism and hoped-for democracy, and in which no undisputed ‘winner’ has yet emerged. Alexis de Tocqueville noted long ago that ‘the most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways’, Reform and political change, as Samuel Huntington observes, ‘may contribute not to political stability but to greater instability …[and] encourages demands for still more changes which can easily snowball’. Both suddenly unrestrained popular demands and forces loyal to the ancien régime (including the military) may threaten the process and outcome of reform. |
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