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This volume provides a framework for analyzing security sector
reform under international tutelage. Following violent conflict and
military interventions, international organizations or coalitions
of countries increasingly engage in post-conflict reconstruction.
Part of the international post-conflict agenda is the
'reconstruction' or 'reform' of the security sector (SSR). In
post-conflict situations, the security sector is often
characterized by politicization, ethnicization, corruption of the
security services, excessive military spending, lack of
professionalism, poor oversight and inefficient allocation of
resources. At the same time, there is great need for effective and
efficient (re-)establishment of a legitimate monopoly of force.
While initially this is in the purview of the external intervention
forces, they also face the task of the building up of effective,
efficient accountable and democratically legitimized security
forces as quickly as possible. The contributors analyze six
pertinent cases: Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Haiti, Kosovo,
Sierra Leone and Timor Leste, focusing on issues such as priorities
for security and for security sector reform, sequencing of
reconstruction and reform, tensions between requirements of
security and security governance and the interaction of domestic
and external actors in security sector reform. This book was
previously published as a special issue of International
Peacekeeping.
Foreign affairs practitioners and policy analysts claim that
international arms embargoes usually fail due to the lack of
political will among national governments to implement and enforce
these restrictions. This volume confronts this critique directly,
first by describing a more nuanced assessment of success, and then
by presenting well-informed empirical and case-study chapters that
reveal arms embargoes to be more effective than often understood.
The chapters in this book examine some of the more complex cases of
arms embargoes such as Iraq, Pakistan, Angola, Liberia and the
Great Lakes region of Africa. Readers will find data and
assessments not available in prior studies, as well as frameworks
that can be replicated in future research. The book concludes with
policy suggestions for how arms embargoes might be strengthened and
their political objectives more readily attained.
Severe droughts, damaging floods and mass migration: Climate change
is becoming a focal point for security and conflict research and a
challenge for the world's governance structures. But how severe are
the security risks and conflict potentials of climate change? Could
global warming trigger a sequence of events leading to economic
decline, social unrest and political instability? What are the
causal relationships between resource scarcity and violent
conflict? This book brings together international experts to
explore these questions using in-depth case studies from around the
world. Furthermore, the authors discuss strategies, institutions
and cooperative approaches to stabilize the climate-society
interaction.
This volume provides a framework for analyzing security sector
reform under international tutelage. Following violent conflict and
military interventions, international organizations or coalitions
of countries increasingly engage in post-conflict reconstruction.
Part of the international post-conflict agenda is the
'reconstruction' or 'reform' of the security sector (SSR). In
post-conflict situations, the security sector is often
characterized by politicization, ethnicization, corruption of the
security services, excessive military spending, lack of
professionalism, poor oversight and inefficient allocation of
resources. At the same time, there is great need for effective and
efficient (re-)establishment of a legitimate monopoly of force.
While initially this is in the purview of the external intervention
forces, they also face the task of the building up of effective,
efficient accountable and democratically legitimized security
forces as quickly as possible. The contributors analyze six
pertinent cases: Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Haiti, Kosovo,
Sierra Leone and Timor Leste, focusing on issues such as priorities
for security and for security sector reform, sequencing of
reconstruction and reform, tensions between requirements of
security and security governance and the interaction of domestic
and external actors in security sector reform. This book was
previously published as a special issue of International
Peacekeeping.
Arms and Warfare considers the impact of arms shipments on a
conflict once it has begun. Using case studies, the authors
pinpoint the timing of arms transfers and then assess the influence
of these deliveries.
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