Military Aid and Human Rights: Assessing the Impact of U.S. Security Assistance Programs

Omelicheva, Mariya Y.; Carter, Brittnee; Campbell, Luke B.

doi:10.1002/polq.12575

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“…A recent study by Bell et al (2017) finds that US military deployments correlate with improved government respect for human rights in countries where US strategic interests are weak. Similarly, Omelicheva, Carter, and Campbell (2017) find US military exchange programs reduce significant human rights violations within partner countries.…”

Section: Security Cooperation and Soft Powermentioning

confidence: 98%

Building Trust: The Effect of US Troop Deployments on Public Opinion in Peru

Flynn

Machain

Stoyan

2019

International Studies Quarterly

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Since the 1950s, US military personnel have taken on an increasingly diverse set of responsibilities, including less traditional roles delivering disaster aid and engaging in public diplomacy. Focusing on a particular subset of deployments, humanitarian and civic-assistance deployments to Latin America, we examine the effect that a US military presence can have on public opinion in the host country. We focus on the microfoundations of popular support and use survey data and newly collected subnational data on deployments to examine the effect of these deployments on mass attitudes toward the US military and government in Peru. We find that these deployments do improve perceptions of the US military and government, and correlate with assessments of US influence that are more positive. Our findings bolster the conclusions of previous research that shows how aid can both improve public attitudes toward the donor country and address the foreign aid attribution problem.

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Section: Security Cooperation and Soft Powermentioning

confidence: 98%

Building Trust: The Effect of US Troop Deployments on Public Opinion in Peru

Flynn

Machain

Stoyan

2019

International Studies Quarterly

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“…US training activities, however, go well beyond these programs. Martinez Machain (2021) and Omelicheva, Carter & Campbell (2017) cover nearly the full array of programs using the FMTR, but exclude Afghanistan (ASFF) Iraq (ISFF), by far the two largest programs, and lack IMTAD’s complementary data.…”

Section: Comparison With Existing Datamentioning

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Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda

McLauchlin

Seymour

Martel

2022

Journal of Peace Research

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Training other countries’ armed forces is a go-to foreign policy tool for the United States and other states. A growing literature explores the effects of military training, but researchers lack detailed data on training activities. To assess the origins and consequences of military training, as well as changing patterns over time, this project provides a new, global dataset of US foreign military training. This article describes the scope of the data along with the variables collected, coding procedures, and spatial and temporal patterns. We demonstrate the added value of the data in their much greater coverage of training activities, showing differences from both existing datasets and aggregate foreign military aid data. Reanalyzing prior research findings linking US foreign military training to the risk of coups d’état in recipient states, we find that this effect is limited to a single US program representing a small fraction of overall US training activities. The data show comprehensively how the United States attempts to influence partner military forces in a wide variety of ways and suggest new avenues of research.

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“…In contrast to major weapons, small arms are not only tools of the military, but also the primary endowment of police forces (Boutwell and Klare, 1999; Karp, 2018). Importing small arms can thus lift “material constraints” in the equipment of police and security forces that otherwise lead to insecurity (Mehler, 2012: 49; Oreta, 2009; cf. Adekoya and Abdul Razak, 2017).…”

Section: Building a Theory Of Small Arms Imports And Conflict Riskmentioning

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“…In like manner, US security aid programs specifically aim at enhancing counterterrorism efforts and general security by training and equipping the police and military forces (Berman, 2003;Omelicheva et al, 2017). Supported countries like Bahrain, Belize and Saudi Arabia imported significant amounts of small arms over the sample period of this article, without outbreaks of intrastate conflicts.…”

Section: Small Arms State Capacities and Conflictmentioning

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Arming for conflict, arming for peace? How small arms imports affect intrastate conflict risk

Mehltretter

2021

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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Although a prevalent technology of conflict, the impact of small arms imports on the risk of intrastate conflict outbreak has not been examined so far. This article argues that small arms not only enhance general military capabilities, but also contribute to state capacities necessary for conflict prevention. These two mechanisms are incorporated in a formal model of power shifts. The derived hypotheses are tested on 146 countries for the period 1993–2014. Using split-population and penalized fixed-effects logit models as innovative estimation methods for rare-events data, small arms imports are found to have no or even a risk-reducing impact.

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Military Aid and Human Rights: Assessing the Impact of U.S. Security Assistance Programs

Cited by 10 publications

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Building Trust: The Effect of US Troop Deployments on Public Opinion in Peru

Building Trust: The Effect of US Troop Deployments on Public Opinion in Peru

Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda

Arming for conflict, arming for peace? How small arms imports affect intrastate conflict risk

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