Security assistance has become the largest component of
international peacebuilding and stabilization efforts, and a
primary tool for responding to civil war and insurgency. Donors and
peacekeepers not only train and equip military and police forces,
they also seek to overhaul their structure, management, and
oversight. Yet, we know little about why these efforts succeed or
fail. Efforts to restructure security forces in Iraq, Libya, South
Sudan, Timor-Leste, and the Democratic Republic of Congo ended
amidst factional fighting. Similar efforts in Liberia, Sierra
Leone, El Salvador, Mozambique, and Bosnia and Herzegovina helped
to transform security forces and underpin peace. What accounts for
the mixed outcomes of efforts to restructure security forces after
civil war? What is the role of external involvement on these
outcomes? In Governing Security After War, Louis-Alexandre Berg
examines the political dimensions of security governance through
systematic, cross-country comparison. Berg argues that the extent
to which state policymakers adopt changes to the management and
oversight of security forces depends on internal political
dynamics, specifically the degree to which leaders need to
consolidate power. The different political strategies leaders
pursue, in turn, affect opportunities for external actors to
influence institutional changes through means such as conditions on
aid, norm diffusion, or day-to-day participation in
decision-making. Drawing on an original dataset of security
governance and field research in Liberia, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
and Timor-Leste, as well as mini-case studies of Iraq, Afghanistan,
South Sudan, and Somalia, Berg draws out novel implications that
help explain the recurrence of civil war and the impact of foreign
aid on peacebuilding. Moreover, Berg provides practical
recommendations for navigating the political challenges of
institutional change in conflict-affected countries. Ultimately,
Governing Security After War seeks to explain the success and
failure of international assistance in war-torn countries and sheds
light on the politics of peacebuilding.
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