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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Security Assistance"”.
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Implementation and utilization of security assistance: a multi-country analysis
Security assistance encompasses a broad assortment of tools to include the sale or transfer of military equipment, grant funds, and education and training, all of which aim to build partner nation capacity. This project examines trends among the U.S. Foreign Military Sales, Foreign Military …
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Teach them to fish. Analyzing practices of security assistance in international peacekeeping training centers.
Security assistance has and continues to be the focus of considerable investment by international organizations in non-EU countries. Most debates on security assistance rely on the assumption that a peaceful endpoint can be reached if appropriate policies are implemented or if the right conditions …
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Security After War: A Theory of Security Assistance and Governance in Post-Conflict States
… have increasingly promoted the provision of security assistance to states emerging from civil war as a tool to establish peace. Driven by both security and development concerns, donors have asserted the value of this assistance to improve both the governance and effectiveness of the security …
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The Cult of the Persuasive: The U.S. Military’s Aversion to Coercion in Security Assistance
… in partner states? The fundamental challenge of security assistance is that of influencing recipient political-military decision-making. How does the United States aim to influence recipient leaders? Which strategies of influence work best? Why does the United States choose the strategies of …
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The impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on United States' security assistance to Southern Africa : a quantitative analysis
… United States government who approached regional security cooperation with a primarily minimalist approach. During the pre-9/11 years the United States did provide Southern African governments with some security sector assistance, primarily in direct military training and law enforcement …
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Choosing to win: how SOF can better select partners for capacity building
The U.S. government relies heavily on security cooperation and security assistance programs to build partner-nation capacity as a means of furthering U.S. national security interests. Special Operations Forces (SOF) have contributed to this effort, particularly in the training and advising of …
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A study of historical trends and practices within the international military education and training (IMET) program with a focus on the Pacific region
… Rim. IMET is an instrument of U.S. national security and foreign policy and a key component of U.S. security assistance that provides training and education on a grant basis to students from participating nations. Specifically, this research asked: 1) What were the changes in IMET student …
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Sharing Vulcan’s Secrets: Why States Disclose Details of Advanced Military Technology to Other States
… sharing as a unique form of interstate security assistance. Unlike alliances and arms sales, states cannot claw-back the capability technology provides if relations with a recipient worsen. As result, technology sharing’s consequences last for as long as the transferred technology …
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Hedging to Safety: A Political Economy of Derivatives, Risk and Agriculture in the Developing World
… focusing upon the potential income security benefits of hedging with futures instruments for coffee farmers in Mexico, Brazil and Uganda during the 1998-2002 coffee crisis. The three-part quantitative and qualitative analysis undertaken focuses upon: 1. The ability of futures hedging …
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Security cooperation as a way to stop the spread of nuclear weapons? : Nuclear nonproliferation policies of the United States towards the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel, 1945-1968
In my dissertation on 'Security Cooperation as a Way to Stop the Spread of Nu-clear Weapons? Nuclear Nonproliferation Policies of the United States towards the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel, 1945-1968', I study the use of security assistance as nonproliferation policy. I use insights of …
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Building partner armies : US lessons for an era of strategic competition
… by the United States when developing foreign security forces: the Rapport Building Approach and the Pressure-Based Approach. Both camps reveal important insights about security force assistance (SFA), yet they are largely influenced by the post-9/11 era’s dominant security challenges: …