Improvise, adapt and fail to overcome? Capacity building, culture and exogenous change in Sierra Leone

Neads, Alex

doi:10.1080/01402390.2017.1405808

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“…The provision of external assistance to reinforce African security capabilities has warranted considerable scholarly interest over the years (e.g. Jowell 2018;Williams 2020;Tull 2019;Reno 2018;Neads 2019). Examples abound of initiatives led by outside partners aiming to support, resize, rebrand or re-create from scratch entirely new security apparatuses, often with mixed results.…”

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Falling Short or Rising above the Fray? Rising Powers and Security Force Assistance to Africa

Seabra

2021

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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What different solutions, if any, are provided? And how does their overall record fare against previous experiences across the continent? By exploring Brazilian and Chinese efforts in Namibia as well as Chinese and Indian overtures towards Mozambique, I argue that rising powers tend to be more invested in a long-term socializing agenda than in immediate capacitation results. This, in turn, justifies their inroads in sectorial niches, as gateways for durable outcomes over time.

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Falling Short or Rising above the Fray? Rising Powers and Security Force Assistance to Africa

Seabra

2021

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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Journal of Strategic Studies

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Security Force Assistance to Fragile States: A Framework of Analysis

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Reno

2021

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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A major shift in global security provision has occurred. Security Force Assistance (SFA) programs, which involve the training and equipping of a foreign armed force, have become an increasingly common form of intervention into fragile states. These programmes have replaced large-scale combat deployment and policy makers now prefer them over broad and expensive security sector reform. This Special Issue focuses on dynamics that are specific to fragile recipient states with fragmented security forces. In this introduction article we assess the state of the field of SFA studies. We discuss approaches to the study of SFA and propose a framework for research which covers conceptualisation, implementation, and impact of SFA programmes. A key observation emerging from the case studies presented here is that the logic of governance in many of these states relies upon manipulating security sector fragmentation, which can produce outcomes that are directly opposed to SFA providers' intent. Moreover, the proliferation of providers and programmes exacerbates this fragmentation.

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Improvise, adapt and fail to overcome? Capacity building, culture and exogenous change in Sierra Leone

Cited by 3 publications

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Falling Short or Rising above the Fray? Rising Powers and Security Force Assistance to Africa

Falling Short or Rising above the Fray? Rising Powers and Security Force Assistance to Africa

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Security Force Assistance to Fragile States: A Framework of Analysis

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