TY - JOUR
KW - Defense Institution Building
KW - defense sector reform
KW - institutional capacity building
KW - ministerial reform
KW - security sector reform
KW - U.S. security assistance
KW - U.S. security cooperation
AU - Alexandra Kerr
AB - <p>This article aims to provide readers, especially those outside the U.S. Defense establishment, with an overview of U.S. Defense Institution Capacity Building (DIB), including its origins, key developments in the past decade, what it means in the U.S. context, who is responsible for its plan-ning and implementation, why the U.S. undertakes DIB, some of the chal-lenges U.S. DIB practitioners have faced to date, and finally a look at where DIB can be improved in the future.</p>
BT - Connections: The Quarterly Journal
DA - Summer 2018
DO - https://doi.org/10.11610/Connections.17.3.02
IS - 3
LA - eng
N2 - <p>This article aims to provide readers, especially those outside the U.S. Defense establishment, with an overview of U.S. Defense Institution Capacity Building (DIB), including its origins, key developments in the past decade, what it means in the U.S. context, who is responsible for its plan-ning and implementation, why the U.S. undertakes DIB, some of the chal-lenges U.S. DIB practitioners have faced to date, and finally a look at where DIB can be improved in the future.</p>
PY - 2018
SP - 23
EP - 38
T2 - Connections: The Quarterly Journal
TI - Defense Institution Building in the U.S. Context
VL - 17
ER -