Abstract
ABSTRACTThe West African country of Côte d’Ivoire, which had just emerged from a protracted, bloody intra-state conflict, was hailed in 2016 by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the fastest growing economy in Africa. Paradoxically, it has also earned the dubious characteristic of being a mutiny-prone country. For most of the past year, it experienced sporadic episodes of military uprisings. This paper seeks to uncover the underlying causal factors behind this phenomenon. First, building on Huntington’s conceptual framework of civil-military relations, it locates the source of the mutinies in the unprofessional nature of the Ivorian security forces. It also argues that these mutinies further stem from the ethno-politicization and the impunity that permeate these forces and calls into question the proclaimed success of the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) and Security Sector Reform (SSR) processes. In the process, it discounts the view that these mutinies may be grounded in a sense of injustice.
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