ABSTRACT
In contrast to the societal actors discussed in Chapter 3, modern state actors are actors created by the colonial and post-colonial administrative settlement. They derive their authority from law. These actors can be further divided into two categories: civilian modern state actors and military modern state actors. Civilian modern state actors include the courts (magistrate, state counsel), prefect or sub-prefect, mayor or government delegate, governor and the presidency. Military modern state actors include the police, gendarmerie and army. This chapter begins with a description and analysis of civilian modern state actors and moves to military modern state actors. It describes the structure and relationships that exist between different modern state actors, societal actors and end-users. From this, modern state security provision is explained.
