Security Force Assistance: Cases and Policy

Abstract

PIs Stephen Biddle (George Washington University) and Eli Berman (UCSD) supplemented existing Deterrence with Proxies (DwP) research with three book chapters and a research article. These additional activities funded by this grant analyze security force assistance as an example of capacity building, a recent theoretical extension to the underlying DwP model. In the course of their research they discovered that an alternative to an agency model of working through proxies is a capacity building approach, in which support and punishment are augmented by assistance that enhances the ability of the proxy to suppress the problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 02, 2018
Accession Number
AD1047427

Entities

People

  • Eli Berman
  • Stephen Biddle

Organizations

  • National Bureau of Economic Research

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan
  • Air Power
  • El Salvador
  • Force Structure
  • Foreign Policy
  • Foreign Relations
  • Governments
  • International Organizations
  • International Security
  • Military Research
  • National Security
  • Political Science
  • Security
  • South Korea
  • Troop Withdrawal
  • United States
  • Universities

Readers

  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Strategic Security Studies