Security assistance

We included the following 23 research reports in our review:

Biddle, Stephen; Macdonald, Julia; Baker, Ryan. "Small footprint, small payoff: The military effectiveness of security force assistance," Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2 (2018): 89-142, DOI: 10.1080/01402390.2017.1307745.

Blanton, Shannon Lindsey. "Instruments of Security or Tools of Repression? Arms Imports and Human Rights Conditions in Developing Countries," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 36, no. 2 (1999): 233-244, https://www.jstor.org/stable/424671. 

Boutton, Andrew. "Military Aid, Regime Vulnerability and the Escalation of Political Violence," British Journal of Political Science, (first published 2019): 507-525, DOI: 10.1017/S000712341900022X. 

Bsisu, Naji; Murdie, Amanda. "Interventions and repression following civil conflict," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 59, no. 2 (2022), 213-228, DOI: 10.1177/00223433211010857.

Dube, Oeindrila; Naidu, Suresh. "Bases, Bullets, and Ballots: The Effect of US Military Aid on Political Conflict in Colombia," Journal of Politics, vol. 77, no. 1 (2015): 249-267, DOI: 10.1086/679021.

Fajardo-Heyward, Paola. "Understanding the Effect of Security Assistance on Human Rights: The Case of Plan Colombia," The Latin Americanist, vol. 59, no. 2 (2015): 3-27, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/705877/pdf. 

Fauconnet, Cécile; Malizard, Julien; Pietri, Antoine. French arms exports and intrastate conflicts: An empirical investigation, 2017, https://afse2017.sciencesconf.org/143429/Fauconnet_Malizard_Pietri_2017.pdf. 

Hein, Patrick. "The patterns of Chinese authoritarian patronage and implications for foreign policy: Lessons from Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Cambodia," Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, vol. 4, no. 5 (2020): 385-399, DOI: 10.1177/2057891119878517. 

Jadoon, Amira. "Persuasion and Predation: The Effects of U.S. Military Aid and International Development Aid on Civilian Killings," Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, vol. 41, no. 10 (2018): 776-800, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2017.1353355.

Jadoon, Amira. "Playing dirty to survive: the vulnerability of civilian targets within U.S. military aid recipient states," Small Wars and Insurgencies, vol. 30, no. 3 (2019): 587-614, DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2019.1601865.

Karlén, Niklas. "The legacy of foreign patrons: External state support and conflict recurrence," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 54, no. 4 (2017): 499-512, DOI: 10.1177/0022343317700465.

Ladwig III, Walter C. "Influencing Clients in Counterinsurgency," International Security, vol. 41, no. 1 (2016): 99-146, DOI: 10.1162/ISEC_a_00251.

Maekawa, Wakako. "External intelligence assistance and the recipient government’s violence against civilians," Conflict Management and Peace Science, vol. 40, no. 5 (2022), 511-532, DOI: 10.1177/07388942221129047.

McCoy, Katherine E. "Trained to Torture? The Human Rights Effects of Military Training at the School of the Americas," Latin American Perspectives, vol. 32, no. 6 (2005): 47-64, DOI: 10.1177/0094582X05281113. 

Mehrl, Marius; Thurner, Paul W. "Military Technology and Human Loss in Intrastate Conflict: The Conditional Impact of Arms Imports," Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 64, no. 6 (2020): 1172-1196, DOI: 10.1177/0022002719893446.

Moore, Matthew. "Selling to Both Sides: The Effects of Major Conventional Weapons Transfers on Civil War Severity and Duration," International Interactions, vol. 38, no. 3 (2012): 325-347, DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2012.676511.

Norrevik, Sara; Sarwari, Mehwish. "Third-party regime type and civil war duration," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 58, no. 6 (2021), 1256-1270, DOI: 10.1177/0022343320975819.

O'Mahony, Angela; Priebe, Miranda; Frederick, Bryan; Kavanagh, Jennifer; Lane, Matthew; Johnston, Trevor; Szayna, Thomas S; Hlavka, Jakub P; Watts, Stephen; Povlock, Matthew. U.S. Presence and the Incidence of Conflict, RAND Corporation, 2018, https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1906.html.

Pamp, Oliver; Rudolph, Lukas; Thurner, Paul W.; Mehltretter, Andreas; Primus, Simon. "The Build-up of Coercive Capacities: Arms Imports and the Outbreak of Violent Intrastate Conflicts," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 55, no. 4 (2018): 430-444, DOI: 10.1177/0022343317740417.

Radziszewski, Elizabeth; Akcinaroglu, Seden. "Private military & security companies, conflict complexity, and peace duration: an empirical analysis," Small Wars and Insurgencies, vol. 31, no. 7-8 (2020): 1415-1440, DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2020.1784500.

Sawyer, Katherine; Cunningham, Kathleen Gallagher; Reed, William. "The Role of External Support in Civil War Termination," 2015, http://www.kathleengallaghercunningham.com/uploads/4/5/5/8/45589607/jcr_finalversion_wnames.pdf. 

Sullivan, Patricia L.; Blanken, Leo J.; Rice, Ian C. "Arming the Peace: Foreign Security Assistance and Human Rights Conditions in Post-Conflict Countries," Defence and Peace Economics (2018): 1-33, DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2018.1558388. 

Watts, Stephen; Johnston, Trevor; Lane, Matthew; Mann, Sean; McNerney, Michael J; Brooks, Andrew. Building Security in Africa: An Evaluation of U.S. Security Sector Assistance in Africa from the Cold War to the Present, RAND Corporation, 2018, https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2447.html.