Training Foreign Militaries for Peace – U.S. Imet and Militarized Interstate Disputes 1976-2007
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12980936 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sándor Fábián (University of Central Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-61 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Strategic Security (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1944-0464 • E-ISSN: 1944-0472 |
| Publisher | University of South Florida Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5038/1944-0472.14.1.1822 |
| OpenAlex | W3136965988 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
How do U.S. International Military Education and Training programs affect the recipient states` behavior in militarized interstate disputes? While the relationship between U.S. military aid in the form of arms and equipment transfer and MID involvement has been studied extensively in international relations literature the effects of U.S. IMET programs on the same phenomena has been largely ignored. This study intends to fill some of this gap. This paper proposes that American educated and trained foreign military personnel return home with a better understanding about the role of the military as an instrument of national power, civil-military relations, and the cost of war. These military personnel advise their political masters against the use of military force during international disputes leading to a decreased probability of both MID initiation and escalation. To test this argument the analysis employs a merged dataset from the Correlates of War Projects and the most prominent U.S. IMET and coups data. Using logistic regression analysis this study finds that more U.S. IMET support a country receives the less likely it initiates MIDs. The analysis also finds that countries that receive U.S. IMET support are less likely to escalate ongoing MIDs to higher levels of hostility
Affect (linguistics · Argument (complex analysis · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Hostility · International relations · Logistic regression · National security · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Training (meteorology · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Medicine · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |