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Assessing security cooperation as a preventive tool

Title
Assessing security cooperation as a preventive tool / Michael J. McNerney, Angela O'Mahony, Thomas S. Szayna, Derek Eaton, Caroline Baxter, Colin P. Clarke, Emma Cutrufello, Michael McGee, Heather Peterson, Leslie Adrienne Payne, Calin Trenkov-Wermuth.
Author
McNerney, Michael J. (Michael Joseph)
Publication
  • Santa Monica, California : RAND, [2014]
  • ©2014

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Additional Authors
  • Arroyo Center, issuing body.
  • United States. Army, sponsoring body.
Description
xxiii, 126 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Summary
The report tested the assertion that U.S. security cooperation (SC) can help reduce fragility in partner states. The test used statistical analysis to assess SC data and state fragility scores for 107 countries in 1991–2008. After controlling for a variety of factors, the main finding was that provision of SC by the United States and a reduction in partner state fragility were correlated. The strength of correlation did not increase proportionally with additional funding; most of the effect was concentrated at the low end of SC funding. In addition, the correlation depended on recipient country characteristics. Correlation was stronger in more democratic states and in states with stronger institutions. In especially fragile states, there was only a weak or no correlation of SC with fragility decrease. Of the types of SC provided, the correlation was strongest with education-focused SC. Foreign Military Financing, a type of SC, did not correlate with reductions in fragility.
Subject
  • Military assistance, American > Evaluation
  • Security sector > International cooperation
  • Conflict management > International cooperation
  • Terrorism > United States > Prevention
  • Political stability
  • Security, International
  • United States > Military relations
Note
  • RAND Arroyo Center--At head of title.
  • Prepared for the United States Army--Title page.
  • "RR-350-A"--Page 4 of cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-126).
Contents
Introduction -- Security Cooperation, U.S. Strategy, and the Concept of "Prevention" -- Statistical Approach to Assessing the Preventive Hypothesis -- Assessing the Preventive Hypothesis -- Findings from Case Studies -- Findings and Implications -- Appendix A: Army Security Cooperation Programs -- Appendix B: Sensitivity Analyses.
Call Number
JFE 17-2668
ISBN
  • 9780833081469
  • 0833081462
LCCN
2014005202
OCLC
870336355
Author
McNerney, Michael J. (Michael Joseph), author.
Title
Assessing security cooperation as a preventive tool / Michael J. McNerney, Angela O'Mahony, Thomas S. Szayna, Derek Eaton, Caroline Baxter, Colin P. Clarke, Emma Cutrufello, Michael McGee, Heather Peterson, Leslie Adrienne Payne, Calin Trenkov-Wermuth.
Publisher
Santa Monica, California : RAND, [2014]
Copyright Date
©2014
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-126).
Added Author
Arroyo Center, issuing body.
United States. Army, sponsoring body.
Research Call Number
JFE 17-2668
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