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Record Nr.

UNINA9910220114803321

Autore

Watts Stephen (Stephen Baldwin)

Titolo

Identifying and mitigating risks in security sector assistance for Africa's fragile states / / Stephen Watts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

RAND Corporation, 2015

Santa Monica, CA : , : Rand Corporation, 2015

ISBN

0-8330-9142-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 59 pages) : map

Disciplina

355/.03260973

Soggetti

Military assistance, American - Risk assessment - Africa

Security sector - Africa

Political stability - Africa

Conflict management - Africa

Armies

Military & Naval Science

Law, Politics & Government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

The problem of security sector assistance in Africa -- Risks of SSA in the fragile states of Africa -- Improving U.S. security sector assistance processes to mitigate risk -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This report explores the nature of the risks inherent in U.S. security sector assistance to the fragile states of Africa and how the United States might better anticipate and mitigate these risks. It examines these issues through a review of qualitative and quantitative literature from both the academic and policy fields and through interviews conducted throughout the agencies of the U.S. government. The quantitative literature suggests a stark dilemma for those responsible for U.S. security sector assistance to the AFRICOM area of responsibility: The countries that are most in need of assistance are usually the ones least able to make positive use of it. Case studies of security sector assistance in the fragile countries in Africa are used to trace multiple specific pathways by which such assistance can have negative second- and third-order effects. Finally, the report provides



numerous recommendations about ways in which the United States can improve the processes by which it monitors and evaluates, plans, and implements security sector assistance in the fragile states of Africa and more generally.