The politics of security sector reform in ‘fragile’ or ‘post-conflict’ settings
A critical review of the experience in Timor-Leste
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15070348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Selver B Sahin (0000-0002-9837-2640, RMIT University, corresponding author), Donald Feaver (RMIT University) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1056-1080 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Democratization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1351-0347 • E-ISSN: 1743-890X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13510347.2012.674368 |
| OpenAlex | W2011292397 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 15 |
Security sector reform (SSR) policy has, for the better part of a decade, been viewed as instrumental to the larger international project of improving and strengthening the ‘capacity’ of post-conflict and ‘fragile’ states. The current policy approach, which represents a merging of security and development agendas in the post-Cold War era, is based on the premise that fragmented, ineffective, poorly managed and politicised state security institutions threaten political stability and undermine poverty reduction and sustainable development goals. The objective of this article is to examine aspects of what has been described as the ‘SSR policy-practice gap’ that arose in the course of implementing SSR policy in Timor-Leste by analysing the systemic basis of the gap. An analytical framework that untangles the relationship between SSR policy objectives, targets and outcomes is presented in concert with a discussion of the social and political circumstances that confronted international organisations and donor countries when they sought to implement SSR policy in Timor-Leste. By using the analytical framework to assess the policy coherence between SSR objectives and the SSR programme contained in UN Security Council Resolution 1704, the ubiquitous disconnect between SSR ‘Gospel and Reality’ is pulled more sharply into focus
Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Foreign policy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Security policy · Sociology · Timor leste · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration
The rhetoric and practice of the ‘ownership’ of security sector reform processes in fragile countries
Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia
Women’s Political Participation in Post-conflict Settings
Why perfect policy coherence is unattainable (and may be ill-advised)
La « réforme du secteur de la sécurité »
Optimised or compromised? United Kingdom support to reforming security sector governance in post-war Nepal
Guns, gender and petroleum
Democratisation and Social Conflict in Timor-Leste
Global Governance and the New Wars
State in Society
Timor‐leste in 2009
Peacekeepers as nation‐builders
Totem Polls
Dependent state formation and Third World militarization
Building the State in Timor-Leste
Portuguese Timor
Policy Coherence and Policy Domains
Policy Failure and Policy Change
Untaet with Hindsight
To 2012 and Beyond
Laudable, ahistorical and overambitious
(Post-)colonial state-building and state failure in East Timor
Building State Failure in East Timor
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |