Mauritania, August 2005: Justice and democracy, or just another coup?

African Affairs

Volumn 105, Issue 420, 2006, Pages 421-441

  N'Diaye, Boubacar ^a  

^a 931 College Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; DEMOCRACY; DEMOCRATIZATION; VIOLENCE;

AFRICA; MAURITANIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33748077130     PISSN: 00019909     EISSN: 14682621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adi126     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Ball, Nicole and Kayode Fayemi (eds), Security Sector Governance in Africa. A handbook (Center for Democracy and Development, Lagos, 2004).
2. Baudel, Pierre-Robert, 'La Mauritanie dans l'ordre international', Politique Africaine 55 (1994), pp. 11-9.
3. Case, William, 'New uncertainties for an old pseudo-democracy', Comparative Politics 37, 1 (2004), pp. 83-104.
4. Diamond, Larry, 'Beyond authoritarianism: Strategies for democratisation', in Brad Roberts (ed.), The New Democracies, Global Change and U.S. Policy (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990), pp. 227-49.
5. Ihonvbere, Julius O., 'A balance sheet of Africa's transition to democratic governance', in John Mbaku and Julius O. Ihonvbere (eds), The Transition to Democratic Governance in Africa (Praeger, Westport, CT, 2003), pp. 33-55.
6. Jackson, Robert and Carl Rosberg, Personal Rule in Black Africa: Prince, autocrat, prophet, tyrant (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1982).
7. Jourde, Cédric, '"The President is coming to visit!", Dramas and the hijack of democratisation in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania', Comparative Politics 37 (2005), pp. 421-40.
8. Linz, Juan J., 'Crisis, breakdown and re-equilibration', in Juan Linz and A. Stepan (eds), The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1978), pp. 3-124.
9. N'Diaye, Boubacar, Abdoulaye Saine, and Matturin Houngnikpo, 'Not Yet Democracy': West Africa's slow farewell to authoritarianism (Carolina Academic Press, Durham, NC, 2005).
10. N'Diaye, Boubacar, 'Mauritania's stalled democratisation', Journal of Democracy 12, 3 (2001), pp. 88-95.
11. N'Diaye, Boubacar, 'Not a miracle after all... Côte d'Ivoire's downfall: Flawed civil-military relations and missed opportunities', Scientia Militaria 33, 1 (2005), pp. 89-118.
12. N'Diaye, Boubacar, 'The effect of Mauritania's "human rights deficit": the case against "to forgive and forget"', African Journal of Policy Studies 8, 1 (2002), pp. 17-35.
13. O'Donnell, Guillermo and Philippe C. Schmitter, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative conclusions about uncertain democracies (The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1989).
14. Ottaway, Marina, Democracy Challenged: The rise of semi-authoritarianism (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC, 2003).
15. Ould Cheikh, Abdel Wedoud, 'Des voix dans le desert: Sur les élections de l'ère pluraliste', Politique Africaine 55 (1994), pp. 31-9.
16. Pazzanita, Anthony, 'Mauritania's foreign policy: In search of protection', Journal of Modern African Studies 30, 3 (1992), pp. 288-300.
17. Pazzanita, Anthony, 'The origin and evolution of Mauritania's second republic', Journal of Modern African Studies 34, 4 (1996), pp. 575-96.
18. Smith, Zeric K., 'Mali's decade of democracy', Journal of Democracy 12, 3 (2001), pp. 73-9.
19. Stepan, Alfred, 'Paths toward re democratisation: Theoretical and comparative considerations', in Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead (eds), Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Comparative perspectives (The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1988), pp. 64-84.
20. Sy Mahamadou, L'enfer d'inal (L'Harmattan, Paris, 2000).
21. Widner, Jennifer, 'Two leadership styles and patterns of political liberalisation', African Studies Review 37, 1 (1994), pp. 151-74.