B. K. Greener - Internal Security and Statebuilding: Aligning Agencies and Functions

Internal Security and Statebuilding

This book examines international efforts to provide security in post-conflict sites and explains why internal security should be given precedence in statebuilding endeavours.

The work begins by exploring the evolution of security sectors in mature liberal democratic states, before examining the attempts of such states to accelerate that evolutionary process in post-conflict sites through statebuilding and security sector reform. These discussions suggest interestingly different answers to the question of who should provide for internal security in international operations. When considering mature states, there are both practical and normative reasons as to why internal security has become the sole domain of police, with military forces being excluded from internal affairs. In peace and stability operations, on the other hand, difficulties with utilising police personnel have led to military forces being required to play internal security roles. This tension is investigated further through detailed case studies of three recent missions: Afghanistan, Timor-Leste and Solomon Islands. These case studies both reinforce and augment the practical and normative reasons for ensuring that internal security remains the domain of police. This then impacts upon peace and stability operations in two important ways. If we are to provide enduring security in post-conflict sites, we should both (i) prioritise internal security agencies in security sector reform efforts, and (ii) prioritise ways of enabling police to play internal security roles in the contributing mission.

This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, peace and conflict studies, military studies, police studies, historical sociology, security studies and IR in general.

B.K. Greener is Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Massey University, New Zealand, and author of The New International Policing (2009).

W.J. Fish is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Massey University, New Zealand, and author of Philosophy of Perception: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge 2010).

Series Editor: David Chandler

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Aligning agencies and functions

B.K. Greener and W.J. Fish

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Greener, Beth K., 1977

Internal security and statebuilding : aligning agencies and functions / B. K.

Greener and W. J. Fish.

pages cm. (Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Internal security. 2. Nation-building. I. Fish, William, 1972 II. Title.

U240.G665 2014

363.32dc23

2014022488

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To our parents

Wendy, Peter, Jane, Hugh, and Steve.

We would like to first of all express our gratitude to the many of New Zealand and Australian serving military, military police and police personnel who contributed their time and thoughts to this project. In the end this project resulted in over 60 formal interviews as well as many more informal discussions. These were vital to us and to this research, and we are very grateful to all of those who took the time to meet with us, to take phone calls or to respond to emails.

This research was supported by the Australian Civil Military Centre (previously known as the Asia Pacific CivilMilitary Centre of Excellence) as well as our home institution, Massey University. Travel to Australia, Timor-Leste and Solomon Islands as well as funding for a workshop in Queanbeyan in 2011 was invaluable and was generously provided by the Australian Civil Military Centre. Here we must extend particular thanks to Dr Tony Murney, Dr Jim Rolfe, Senior Sergeant Peter Davis, Inspector Mal Schwartfeger, Major Tim Hind, Colonel Brian Cox, Wing Commander Wendy Horder, Major Josh Wineera, Lieutenant Colonel Nick Floyd and Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Combes for their thoughts and input. Thanks too must go to Olivia Cribb and Kelisiana Thyme for their administrative support at the Centre.