Persuasion and Predation: The Effects of U.S. Military Aid and International Development Aid on Civilian Killings

Jadoon, Amira

doi:10.1080/1057610x.2017.1353355

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“…In contrast, recent analyses by both Jadoon (2018) and Darden (2019) provide evidence that aggregate US military aid significantly reduces civilian targeting by state security forces. Bell et al (2016) also find evidence of a negative relationship between state violence and US security assistance in their investigation of the effects of US troops stationed abroad in peacetime.…”

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“…To my knowledge, these are the only large-N, cross-national studies of the relationship between security aid (including arms transfers) and state repression published in the academic literature over the past 30 years. The results are mixed, some studies finding evidence that arms transfers, military aid, or military training have detrimental impacts on the security of civilians in recipient states (Blanton, 1999;McCoy, 2005;Sandholtz, 2016;Sullivan et al, 2020), while others find security assistance reduces statesponsored human rights violations (Jadoon, 2018;Darden, 2019). Two studies suggest that the effect of security cooperation is conditional on either the type of assistance (Omelicheva et al, 2017) or the strategic value of the recipient country (Bell et al, 2016).…”

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“…Until very recently, there have been few systematic attempts to evaluate the effects of security sector assistance. Those studies that do exist draw contradictory conclusions about the impacts of military aid, some providing evidence that arms transfers, military aid, or military training have detrimental impacts on the security of civilians in recipient states (Blanton, 1999;McCoy, 2005;Sandholtz, 2016;Sullivan et al, 2020), while others find that security assistance actually reduces state-sponsored human rights violations (Jadoon, 2018;Darden, 2019).…”

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Lethal aid and human security: The effects of US security assistance on civilian harm in low- and middle-income countries

Sullivan

2023

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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Since 2001, there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of US military aid flowing to foreign governments. What is the impact of this aid on human security? Drawing on recent research on the principal–agent relationship between state leaders and security sector actors, I develop a theory of the impact of security assistance on the use of deadly force against civilians. Using methods to account for the endogeneity of aid allocations, I find that the impact of security assistance on state violence varies based on the type of assistance provided and the institutional environment in the recipient state.

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Lethal aid and human security: The effects of US security assistance on civilian harm in low- and middle-income countries

Sullivan

2023

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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“…The Global North's framing of foreign aid as altruism has, however, been undermined by its detrimental political consequences in recipient states (Schoultz 1981;Barratt 2007;Callaway and Matthews 2016;Jadoon 2018). After the 9/11 terror attacks, the Bush administration dramatically increased anti-terror-oriented foreign assistance to states cooperating with the US in its global war against non-state terror groups (Regilme 2018).…”

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Comparing US and Chinese Foreign Aid in the Era of Rising Powers

Regilme

Hodzi

2021

The International Spectator

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China is emerging as a key state actor in international developmenta sector that has been dominated by the United States for decades. US and Chinese foreign aid programs can be compared on the basis of several benchmarks: 1) official state definition and accounting of foreign aid programs; 2) historical foundations and origins; 3) sectoral distribution, particularly in terms of the professed goals and objectives of the aid program; 4) nature of targeted recipient actors; 5) institutional mechanisms for delivery in recipient countries. Notwithstanding particular differences, Chinese and US foreign aid portfolios demonstrate their respective strategic political and economic interests in two ways: they shape the domestic politics of recipient countries in ways that accommodate the donor government's policy preferences, and they enhance the social reputation and legitimacy of the donor state in the international system.

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“…Military aid effectiveness US military aid typically entails military education and training programs to boost capacity and human capital (Jadoon 2017;Savage and Caverley 2017), the provision of grants and weapons systems, logistical support and even in-country US military support. The goal of such assistance is to construct competent, inclusive, and apolitical security forces that are willing and able to support US policies and defend the recipient regime while upholding democratic norms (Atkinson 2006;Shafer 1988, 92-95).…”

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Military Aid, Regime Vulnerability and the Escalation of Political Violence

Boutton

2019

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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This article offers an explanation for the failures of US military assistance programs in some countries. The author argues that the effects of military aid are conditional upon the vulnerability of the recipient regime. Power consolidation by an insecure leader often provokes violent opposition. However, because military aid strengthens the security forces of the recipient state, it generates a moral hazard that encourages exclusionary power consolidation, with the expectation that continued military aid will help manage violent blowback. Using proxies for regime vulnerability and an instrument for US military aid, the study shows that military aid increases anti-regime violence in new regimes (particularly new democracies) and in all personalist regimes. In contrast, military assistance has no effect on violence in established, non-personalist regimes. The article develops a novel theory of how regime characteristics condition responses to external military support, and identifies a distinct mechanism through which military aid increases domestic political violence.

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Persuasion and Predation: The Effects of U.S. Military Aid and International Development Aid on Civilian Killings

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Lethal aid and human security: The effects of US security assistance on civilian harm in low- and middle-income countries

Lethal aid and human security: The effects of US security assistance on civilian harm in low- and middle-income countries

Comparing US and Chinese Foreign Aid in the Era of Rising Powers

Military Aid, Regime Vulnerability and the Escalation of Political Violence

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