The Multi-National Joint Task Force and the G5 Sahel Joint Force: The limits of military capacity-building efforts

Dieng, Moda

doi:10.1080/13523260.2019.1602692

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“…Frequent academic and media references to this work also cite it as indicating that US training provokes coups (e.g. Henke, 2019: 165;Dieng, 2019: 493, Economist, 2019.…”

Section: Trends and Patterns In Us Training Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 91%

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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“…Frequent academic and media references to this work also cite it as indicating that US training provokes coups (e.g. Henke, 2019: 165;Dieng, 2019: 493, Economist, 2019.…”

Section: Trends and Patterns In Us Training Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 91%

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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“…44-48;Ploch, 2011, p. 23). When radical Islamists gained power in Northern Mali in 2012 and threatened to enter the capital Bamako in early 2013, the former colonial power, France, launched a military intervention force to eliminate the Islamist threat (Dieng, 2019;Wing, 2019).…”

Section: Multilateral Security Operations In Afghanistan Iraq and Mal...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…478-479). As a consequence of the French wish to share the burden and risk, the UN mandated a multilateral mission with more than 10,000 soldiers and 2,000 police officers with headquarters in Bamako, Mali (Dieng, 2019).…”

Section: Burden Sharing With "Like-minded" Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The French military intervention in Mali backed by troops from Chad very quickly led to the defeat of radical Islamists in the northern part of the country (Dieng, 2019;Wing, 2019). The proactive American policy towards West Africa was part of the American global war on terror (Burgess, 2015, p. 211).…”

Section: Burden-sharing With Partners From Developing Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Twenty-First Century Military Multilateralism: “Messy” and With Unintended Consequences

Olsen

2022

PaG

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The current century has witnessed several high-profile Western military interventions in developing countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, and Mali/West Africa are well-known examples. All three were initiated unilaterally by the US or France but were soon supplemented with multilateral missions which operated in parallel with the unilateral intervention force, giving them a “messy” appearance. In the three cases, the foreign policy decision-makers in the US and France reacted mainly to domestic stimuli, most evidently in the case of the US, where revenge for 9/11 was a strong motive. Like-minded partners in NATO and troops from developing countries shared the burdens of the US and France and gave legitimacy to the military interventions. The consequences of the interventions were not that they contributed to stability. Rather they supported the incumbent elites, as they were able to avoid launching economic and political reform. The lack of reform undermined the prospects for stability.

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“…In addition to these issues are factors such as inability to redefine existing colonial borderline, 17 sole reliance on a concerted military approach in countering terrorism, 18 inadequate efforts to tackle the structural challenges that fuel terrorism, 19 and suspicion over border issues and sovereignty 20 amongst others.…”

Section: Mnjtf: Understanding the Contextmentioning

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Interorganizational Cooperation and the Fight against Terrorism in West Africa and the Sahel

Ajala¹

2021

ISIJ

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The transnational nature of security threats in the 21st Century are such that interorganizational cooperation is necessary to effectively combat these threats. This article explores a key organization, the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), charged with curtailing the threat posed by terrorism in certain parts of the Sahel and West Africa. Using the theoretical framework of Walt’s balance of threat and a combination of data obtained from ACLED and expert interviews, the article argues that the MNJTF has not been successful in achieving its mandate. This could be attributed to five lapses in the restructuring of the organization in 2015 to combat terrorism. The article concludes that for interorganizational security cooperation to be successful, the allies must equally acknowledge that they face the same existential threats which will make them commit to the demands of the organisation.

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The Multi-National Joint Task Force and the G5 Sahel Joint Force: The limits of military capacity-building efforts

Cited by 18 publications

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

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

Twenty-First Century Military Multilateralism: “Messy” and With Unintended Consequences

Interorganizational Cooperation and the Fight against Terrorism in West Africa and the Sahel

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