TY - JOUR
T1 - Security Force Assistance to Fragile States
T2 - A Framework of Analysis
AU - Rolandsen, Øystein H.
AU - Dwyer, Maggie
AU - Reno, William
N1 - Funding Information:
This focus is an outcome of the broader comparative approach used in the research project ‘The Impact of Security Force Assistance on State Fragility.’ This is a project managed by the Peace Research Institute Oslo and funded by the Research Council of Norway. See webpage for further information: https://www.prio.org/Projects/Project/?x=1788
Funding Information:
Research funding for this article was supported by Research Council of Norway under the grant ‘The Impact of Security Force Assistance on State Fragility, Project No.: 274645.’ We are grateful to the anonymous peer reviewers, the journal editor, the special issue authors and the participants of workshops associated with ‘The Impact of Security Force Assistance on State Fragility’ project for their feedback on this work.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Security Force Assistance (SFA)–the training and equipping of a foreign security force–represent a common form of intervention into fragile states. This introduction assesses the state of the field of SFA research and focuses on dynamics specific to recipient states with fragmented security sectors. Based on insights from the contributions to the special issue we propose a framework for research which covers conceptualisation, implementation and impact of SFA programmes. The cases studied here emphasise that the logic of governance in many of these states relies upon manipulating security sector fragmentation, often producing outcomes directly opposed to SFA providers' intent.
AB - Security Force Assistance (SFA)–the training and equipping of a foreign security force–represent a common form of intervention into fragile states. This introduction assesses the state of the field of SFA research and focuses on dynamics specific to recipient states with fragmented security sectors. Based on insights from the contributions to the special issue we propose a framework for research which covers conceptualisation, implementation and impact of SFA programmes. The cases studied here emphasise that the logic of governance in many of these states relies upon manipulating security sector fragmentation, often producing outcomes directly opposed to SFA providers' intent.
KW - Military intervention
KW - armed forces
KW - great power competition
KW - rising powers
KW - security assistance
KW - train and equip
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U2 - 10.1080/17502977.2021.1988224
DO - 10.1080/17502977.2021.1988224
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85115208049
SN - 1750-2977
VL - 15
SP - 563
EP - 579
JO - Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
JF - Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
IS - 5
ER -