External Interventions in State Militaries and Domestic Security Forces

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

External actors have played a large role in the functioning and effectiveness of other states’ militaries and domestic security forces. From the initial development of state militaries under colonization to contemporary international interventions in civil wars, external actors have played heightened roles in the design and battlefield successes of other states' security forces.
This panel aims to investigate the role external interventions play in shaping state militaries and domestic security forces. The papers on this panel come at this topic from two interconnected angles. First, why and under what conditions do external actors intervene in the security apparatus of other states? How do they affect the domestic and external bargaining structures? Second, how do those external interventions shape the design of a state’s security forces from the ethnic composition of its units to the weapons systems the state develops? The papers on this panel come together to empirically introduce various novel data, theoretically address the large gaps in the international intervention literature, and to help better understand the practical implications of international intervention on recipient states.

Sub Unit

• Division 21: Conflict Processes

Individual Presentations

• The Design Dilemma: Ethnic Stacking and the Formation of Colonial Militaries - Julia Raven, University of California, Berkeley

• Understanding Persistent Interventions in Civil Wars - Sevdenur Koru, Temple University

• The Domestic Politics of International Statebuilding: Evidence from Postwar Japan - Masanori Kikuchi, Washington University in St. Louis; Melissa M. Lee, University of Pennsylvania; William G. Nomikos, University of California, Santa Barbara

• The Implications of Reconceptualizing Military Intervention - Meg K. Guliford, Drexel University

Chair

• William G. Nomikos University of California, Santa Barbara

Discussant

• Alexandra Chinchilla Texas A&M, Bush School of Govt and Public Service