Security Sector Reform: Issues, Challenges and Prospects: 344 (Adelphi series) - Softcover

Chanaa, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198516746 ISBN 13: 9780198516743

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Over the last decade, the failure of countries to emerge from conflict and the rise of 'failed states' has focused attention on state security sectors. External actors involved in 'protectorates' such as Kosovo and East Timor and peace agreements such as Cambodia, El Salvador or Bosnia have come face to face with the problems exposed by factionalised, wrong-sized, dictatorial and non-professional security sectors. Consequently, international institutions, the UN or World Bank, for example, and individual government ministries in countries such as the UK, USA and Germany have been increasingly concerned with promoting security sector reform (SSR).

This paper argues, however, that while there is much discussion about capabilities for SSR and its technical requirements, there has been insufficient analysis of how to mobilise such resources. Three central questions, therefore, are examined: how have the external approaches to SSR evolved and what do they entail; what specific problems does the SSR agenda face operationally; and what concrete policy recommendations for engagment can be drawn from reform experiences to date.

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Jane Chanaa

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198516746
• ISBN 13: 9780198516743
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 82