Security assistance in a post-interventionist era: the impact on limited statehood in Lebanon and Tunisia

Santini, Ruth Hanau and Tholens, Simone ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6579-4118 2018. Security assistance in a post-interventionist era: the impact on limited statehood in Lebanon and Tunisia. Small Wars and Insurgencies 29 (3) , pp. 491-514. 10.1080/09592318.2018.1455336

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Abstract

Post-interventionist security assistance is premised on non-normative security understandings and flexible arrangements between external and local actors. In hybrid political regimes or areas of limited statehood, these forms of assistance, while strengthening specific aspects of a country’s security context, reinforce some domestic actors vis-à-vis others thanks to processes of selective borrowing by local political elites. This paper demonstrates how such processes contribute to the proliferation of hybrid elements in the country’s security sector. In two contrasting case studies, we illustrate how security assistance packages in Lebanon and Tunisia have diluted emerging democratic reforms, producing more coercive manifestation of state power.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0959-2318
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	24 July 2018
Date of Acceptance:	9 March 2018
Last Modified:	19 Nov 2024 10:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/113412

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