About the authors -- Summary -- Introduction -- The evolving role of militias -- The Iraqi National Guard : a harness on Sunni power? -- The Libyan National Guard : a failed effort to regularize militia power -- Lessons learned from failed national guard experiments
Summary
"National guards are no panacea for the challenge of building effective states, but they can play an important role in addressing security concerns and moving toward more effective power sharing." -- From the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace web site
Notes
"May 2015"
"This paper was prepared under the auspices of a grant from the International Development Research Center."