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Securing Tyrants or Fostering Reform? U.S. Internal Security Assistance to Repressive and Transitioning Regimes
This study examines the results of U.S. assistance to the internal security forces of four repressive states: El Salvador, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Efforts to improve the security, human rights, and accountability of security forces appear more likely to succeed in states transitioning from repressive to democratic systems. In addition, several factors are critical for success: the duration of assistance, viability of the justice system, and support and buy-in from the local government (including key ministries).
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Building Militaries in Fragile States
Combining rigorous academic scholarship with the experience of a senior Pentagon policymaker, Mara E. Karlin explores the key national security issue of our time: how to effectively build partner militaries. Given the complex and complicated global security environment, declining U.S. defense budgets, and an increasingly connected (and often unstable) world, the United States has an ever-deepening interest in strengthening fragile states. Particularly since World War II, it has often chosen to do so by strengthening partner militaries. It will continue to do so, Karlin predicts, given U.S. sensitivity to casualties, a constrained fiscal environment, the nature of modern nationalism, increasing transnational security threats, the proliferation of fragile states, and limits on U.S. public support for military interventions. However, its record of success is thin.While most analyses of these programs focus on training and equipment, Building Militaries in Fragile States argues that this approach is misguided. Instead, given the nature of a fragile state, Karlin homes in on the outsized roles played by two key actors: the U.S. military and unhelpful external actors. With a rich comparative case-study approach that spans Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, Karlin unearths provocative findings that suggest the traditional way of working with foreign militaries needs to be rethought. Benefiting from the practical eye of an experienced national security official, her results-based exploration suggests new and meaningful findings for building partner militaries in fragile states.
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Echoes of the Jagiellonian Idea in the Present Polish Military Assistance Programs
Echoes of the Jagiellonian Idea in the Present Polish Military Assistance Programs The exchange of ideas, views and mutual benefit from the experience of the traditions that prevailed in Central Europe in the Jagiellonian era also embraced the military area. Similarly, today the European Union, and especially NATO, unknowingly still refer to the Jagiellonian idea. It is certainly done by Poland, actively involved in the process of building a security and democracy zone in Central Europe. Actions called Military Assistance, which will be discussed in this article, are an important element of these activities in the area of security.
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Building Militaries in Fragile States
Combining rigorous academic scholarship with the experience of a
senior Pentagon policymaker, Mara E. Karlin explores the key
national security issue of our time: how to effectively build
partner militaries. Given the complex and complicated global
security environment, declining U.S. defense budgets, and an
increasingly connected (and often unstable) world, the United
States has an ever-deepening interest in strengthening fragile
states. Particularly since World War II, it has often chosen to do
so by strengthening partner militaries. It will continue to do so,
Karlin predicts, given U.S. sensitivity to casualties, a
constrained fiscal environment, the nature of modern nationalism,
increasing transnational security threats, the proliferation of
fragile states, and limits on U.S. public support for military
interventions. However, its record of success is thin.
While most analyses of these programs focus on training and
equipment, Building Militaries in Fragile States argues
that this approach is misguided. Instead, given the nature of a
fragile state, Karlin homes in on the outsized roles played by two
key actors: the U.S. military and unhelpful external actors. With a
rich comparative case-study approach that spans Europe, Asia, and
the Middle East, Karlin unearths provocative findings that suggest
the traditional way of working with foreign militaries needs to be
rethought. Benefiting from the practical eye of an experienced
national security official, her results-based exploration suggests
new and meaningful findings for building partner militaries in
fragile states.
eBook
Security Force Assistance in Afghanistan
Security force assistance (SFA) is a central pillar of the counterinsurgency campaign being waged by U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan. This monograph analyzes SFA efforts in Afghanistan over time, documents U.S. and international approaches to building the Afghan force from 2001 to 2009, and provides observations and recommendations that emerged from extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan in 2009 and their implications for the U.S. Army.
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effect of food stamps on food security: A panel data approach
This research seeks to estimate the effect of Food Stamp Program (FSP) participation on feed security. The FSP is the US Federal Government's largest intervention against hunger and food insecurity. The federal government classifies a household as food secure if all household members have, at all times, access to enough food for an active, healthy life. This research for the first time exploits the longitudinal structure of the federal government's flagship food security survey to control for household-level fixed effects - constand unobserved factors that may influence both program participation and measured food security.
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The role of food assistance in helping food insecure households escape hunger
Borjas GJ, 2004, J PUBLIC ECON, V88, P1421, DOI 10.1016-S0047-2727(02)00188-3; Gundersen C, 2001, AM J AGR ECON, V83, P875, DOI 10.1111-0002-9092.00216; HAMILTON W, 2002, 191 USDA ERS FANR, V1; HOFFERTH S, 2004, EFAN04001 USDA ERS; Huffman SK, 2003, 03WP335 IOW STAT U C; KABBANI N, 2004, 128004 U WISC MAD I; NORD M, 2002, EFAN02015 USDA ERS; NORD M, 2002, 25 USDA ERS FANR; NORD M, 2003, APPAM ANN RES C WASH; NORD M, 2002, 29 USDA ERS FANR; OLIVEIRA V, 2004, 285 USDA ERS FANR; RIBAR D, 2003, 36 USDA ERS FANR; Wilde PE, 2004, J NUTR, V134, P1910
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Are WIC nonrecipients at less nutritional risk than recipients? An application of the food security measure
The goal of the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in the US social safety net is to provide supplemental nutritious food as an adjunct to good health during such critical times of growth and development [during pregnancy, the postpartum period, infancy, and early childhood] in order to prevent the occurrence of health problems. Despite increased enrollment, the US Department of Agriculture and state WIC offices express concern that a larger share of the eligible population does not receive WIC. Policymakers and program administrators want to ensure WIC is being received by those most in need. Some have speculated that WIC recipients are better off than eligible nonrecipients, suggesting that the beneficial impacts of WIC are due to selection rather than the food assistance and nutrition education WIC provides. However, some recent papers have shown that contrary to the positive selection story, WIC recipients are less well-off than eligible nonrecipients. This paper examines whether WIC is reaching those at nutritional risk as measured by household access to food.
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