| Description |
1 online resource (38 pages) : color photographs, portraits |
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Executive summary. -- Overview of U.S. counterterrorism security assistance. -- U.S. counterterrorism assistance to Jordan. -- U.S. counterterrorism assistance to Kenya. -- Key conclusions |
| Summary |
SSince the September 11, 2001, attacks, the U.S. government (USG) has used security assistance programs with partner nations to advance its counterterrorism (CT) objectives. These programs serve two main purposes: first, to build the capacity of partners, who are best positioned to address local security and governance challenges; and second, to incentivize actions in these areas and others that advance U.S. counterterrorism interests. The rationale underpinning this approach is that partners are not only best positioned to address certain security challenges, but also that burden sharing is essential if the United States is to avoid the type of overreach that can dilute its political and military power. Thus, these programs, although expensive, are intended to defray costs away from the United States, which learned from the Iraq and Afghanistan experiences that a counterterrorism strategy centered on a heavy American footprint is costly and politically unsustainable. Despite the proliferation of security assistance authorities and programs, the U.S. government has only recently begun to mature the joint planning and evaluation processes that many agree should drive such programming. There are no standard guidelines for determining the goals of CT security assistance programs, particularly partner capacity-building training programs, or for assessing how these programs fit into broader U.S. foreign policy objectives. And there are few metrics for measuring the effectiveness of these programs once they are being implemented. Drawing upon field research in two recipient nations of U.S. CT security assistance -- Jordan and Kenya -- as well as interviews and workshops with U.S. government officials and nongovernmental experts, this study attempts to address some of these challenges |
| Notes |
"November 2016"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-38) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF cover page (Amazonaws, viewed December 1, 2016) |
| Subject |
Terrorism -- Prevention -- International cooperation -- Evaluation
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Military assistance, American -- Jordan
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Military assistance, American -- Kenya
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Technical assistance, American -- Jordan
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Technical assistance, American -- Kenya
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Military assistance, American.
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Technical assistance, American.
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Jordan.
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Kenya.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Friend, Alice Hunt, author
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Tankel, Stephen, author
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Heras, Nicholas A., author
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Center for a New American Security, publisher.
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