Reforming Security Sector Assistance for Africa

Watts, Stephen; Jackson, Kimberly; Mann, Sean; Dalzell, Stephen; Johnston, Trevor; Lane, Matthew; McNerney, Michael J.; Brooks, Andrew

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“…Yet Joyce (2022), studying the case of Liberia, finds that without robust liberal defense institutions in place, US military training is ineffective at transmitting liberal norms to trainees. Broadly, it appears to be the case that longer-term commitments that emphasize both political and military strategies, and in which US military personnel interact with host state militaries, also are more effective at reducing political violence in the state that receives the training (Watts et al, 2018).…”

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School of influence: Human rights challenges in US foreign military training

Machain

2023

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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Can military training decrease human rights violations by security forces? The case of foreign military training is a complicated one because often the aim of the training itself is to address human rights violations. In this paper I explore whether US military training is effective in promoting respect for human rights in the recipient country. States that receive human rights-focused military training and education only see an improvement in respect for human rights by members of security forces in very limited cases. I use global data as well as newly-coded data from a Latin America sample to evaluate this proposal empirically.

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Section: The Effects Of Us Military Trainingmentioning

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Machain

2023

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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“…Previous work has addressed how U.S. military training can influence the development of democratic institutions and respect for human rights (Ruby and Gibler 2010;. Longer-term commitments that emphasize both political and military strategies, and in which U.S. military personnel interact with host state militaries, are particularly effective at reducing political violence in the state that receives the training (Watts et al 2018).…”

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Exporting Influence: U.S. Military Training as Soft Power

Machain

2020

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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The US engages in extensive training and education of foreign militaries, often through exchange programs carried out at the different military services’ staff and war colleges. Researchers have recently explored the way in which military training can affect civil-military relations in the host country, but not much work has studied whether military training actually leads to increased US influence in these states. This paper proposes a soft-power theoretical framework to argue that foreign military training can create affinity for the U.S. that can in turn result in more pro-U.S. voting behavior in the UN General Assembly. It further expands on the military training literature by distinguishing between different military training programs.

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Reforming Security Sector Assistance for Africa

Abstract: The annual exercise, sponsored by the U.S. Africa Command, aims to strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral information sharing, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara region.

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Exporting Influence: U.S. Military Training as Soft Power

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