SEM In Search of Britain 2024-25
Chères et chers collègues,
Le séminaire In Search of Britain reprendra le mercredi 25 septembre 2024, exceptionnellement à 16h (16h-17h30). Nous accueillerons Gordon Cumming, de l’université de Cardiff, pour une communication intitulée « Understanding the performance of Anglophone and Francophone ad hod military coalitions in Africa ».
Le lien d’inscription est le suivant: u-picardie-fr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMoce-hrDMsEtMEL74f0xYFgSFOuF18ajF_
Bien cordialement,
Mélanie Torrent et Marie Ruiz
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Gordon Cumming (Cardiff University) – 25 September 2024
Understanding the Performance of Anglophone and Francophone Ad Hoc Military Coalitions in Africa
Ad hoc coalitions offer flexible responses to Africa’s security challenges. This paper provides a comparative study of two such African groupings: the Multinational Joint Task Force, an anglophone-led coalition which has endured, and the G5 Sahel Joint Force, an entirely francophone configuration which has collapsed. To explain these divergent outcomes, we begin by assessing and comparing the performance capabilities of these groupings. We then review the ‘classic account’ of their (under)performance, which focuses on the role of external support in sustaining coalitions. Next, we use an organized hypocrisy lens to show how external funding only ensures a coalition’s sustainability where the decoupling between discourse and performance does not become too great. Finally, we ask what the above performance tells us about the backers of these coalitions, particularly Great Britain, whose policy towards Africa has traditionally been marked by benign neglect, and France, whose approach to Africa has typically been characterised as ‘clientelist’ and dependency-generating?
Pour le programme des séances suivantes, régulièrement mis à jour: searchofbritain.wordpress.com/
Mélanie Torrent Professeure des universités Université Picardie Jules Verne UFR Langues et cultures étrangères / UR UPJV CORPUS 4295 Pôle La Citadelle 10 rue des Français libres 80 000 Amiens FRANCE melanie.torrent@u-picardie.fr
Le séminaire In Search of Britain reprendra le mercredi 25 septembre 2024, exceptionnellement à 16h (16h-17h30). Nous accueillerons Gordon Cumming, de l’université de Cardiff, pour une communication intitulée « Understanding the performance of Anglophone and Francophone ad hod military coalitions in Africa ».
Le lien d’inscription est le suivant: u-picardie-fr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMoce-hrDMsEtMEL74f0xYFgSFOuF18ajF_
Bien cordialement,
Mélanie Torrent et Marie Ruiz
***
Gordon Cumming (Cardiff University) – 25 September 2024
Understanding the Performance of Anglophone and Francophone Ad Hoc Military Coalitions in Africa
Ad hoc coalitions offer flexible responses to Africa’s security challenges. This paper provides a comparative study of two such African groupings: the Multinational Joint Task Force, an anglophone-led coalition which has endured, and the G5 Sahel Joint Force, an entirely francophone configuration which has collapsed. To explain these divergent outcomes, we begin by assessing and comparing the performance capabilities of these groupings. We then review the ‘classic account’ of their (under)performance, which focuses on the role of external support in sustaining coalitions. Next, we use an organized hypocrisy lens to show how external funding only ensures a coalition’s sustainability where the decoupling between discourse and performance does not become too great. Finally, we ask what the above performance tells us about the backers of these coalitions, particularly Great Britain, whose policy towards Africa has traditionally been marked by benign neglect, and France, whose approach to Africa has typically been characterised as ‘clientelist’ and dependency-generating?
Pour le programme des séances suivantes, régulièrement mis à jour: searchofbritain.wordpress.com/
Mélanie Torrent Professeure des universités Université Picardie Jules Verne UFR Langues et cultures étrangères / UR UPJV CORPUS 4295 Pôle La Citadelle 10 rue des Français libres 80 000 Amiens FRANCE melanie.torrent@u-picardie.fr