New Security and Justice Sector Partnership Models: Implications of the Arab Uprisings

Michael J. McNerney ; Jennifer D. P. Moroney ; Peter Mandaville ; Terry Hagen

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

关键词: United States;    North Africa;    Security Cooperation;    Political Reform Movements;   

DOI  :  10.7249/RR605
ISBN  :  9780833085757
RP-ID  :  RR-605-DOS

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: RAND Corporation Published Research

【 摘 要 】

The United States faces a unique set of challenges and opportunities in strengthening security and justice sector partnerships in the Middle East and North Africa. Against the backdrop of the Arab uprisings, the U.S. government has issued policy guidance relating to foreign assistance more broadly and security sector assistance in particular. RAND researchers analyzed potential new partnership models that could help implement this guidance, simultaneously strengthening security and justice sector cooperation and promoting reform across the Arab world and beyond. They devised the Enhanced Partnership Planning Model, which focuses on improving collaborative planning, rather than on using assistance as leverage to require partner nations to do what the United States wants. The model serves as a flexible framework that could support tailored, rigorous SJS planning by U.S. and partner nation stakeholders. This framework can support both policy-makers and program managers as they seek to implement new policy guidelines that integrate elements of accountability and reform while continuing to advance core U.S. interests and equities in a rapidly evolving regional context.