Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202434 
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Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
GIGA Working Papers No. 319
Publisher: 
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg
Abstract: 
This paper argues that the scholarship on security sector reform (SSR) tends to neglect regional politics in the formulation of its concepts and policies, and that this neglect deprives the study of SSR of a valuable analytical level. It therefore uses comparative historical analysis and the model of regional conflict formations (RCFs) to examine army reforms in Sierra Leone and Iraq from a regional angle, thereby illustrating the explanatory potential that regional politics could bring to the study of SSR and its implementation. The paper also distinguishes between convergent and divergent regional formations, whereby the relationship between SSR outcomes and regional politics is conceived of as constitutive, entangled, and holistic.
Subjects: 
security sector reform (SSR)
statebuilding
regional politics
army reform
Iraq
Sierra Leone
comparative historical analysis
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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