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Security Assistance in a Post-interventionist Era: The Impact on Limited Statehood in Lebanon and Tunisia

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  • Ruth Hanau Santini
  • Simone Tholens

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Post-interventionist security assistance is premised on non-normative security understandings and flexible arrangements between external and local actors. In hybrid political regimes or areas of limited statehood, these forms of assistance, while strengthening specific aspects of a country’s security context, reinforce some domestic actors vis-à-vis others thanks to processes of selective borrowing by local political elites. This paper demonstrates how such processes contribute to the proliferation of hybrid elements in the country’s security sector. In two contrasting case studies, we illustrate how security assistance packages in Lebanon and Tunisia have diluted emerging democratic reforms, producing more coercive manifestation of state power.

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  • Ruth Hanau Santini & Simone Tholens, 2018. "Security Assistance in a Post-interventionist Era: The Impact on Limited Statehood in Lebanon and Tunisia," Small Wars and Insurgencies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(3), pages 491-514, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fswixx:v:29:y:2018:i:3:p:491-514
    DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2018.1455336
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