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Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda
Training other countries’ armed forces is a go-to foreign policy tool for the United States and other states. A growing literature explores the effects of military training, but researchers lack detailed data on training activities. To assess the origins and consequences of military training, as wel...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8969074/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35370305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00223433211047715 |
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author | McLauchlin, Theodore Seymour, Lee JM Martel, Simon Pierre Boulanger |
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description | Training other countries’ armed forces is a go-to foreign policy tool for the United States and other states. A growing literature explores the effects of military training, but researchers lack detailed data on training activities. To assess the origins and consequences of military training, as well as changing patterns over time, this project provides a new, global dataset of US foreign military training. This article describes the scope of the data along with the variables collected, coding procedures, and spatial and temporal patterns. We demonstrate the added value of the data in their much greater coverage of training activities, showing differences from both existing datasets and aggregate foreign military aid data. Reanalyzing prior research findings linking US foreign military training to the risk of coups d’état in recipient states, we find that this effect is limited to a single US program representing a small fraction of overall US training activities. The data show comprehensively how the United States attempts to influence partner military forces in a wide variety of ways and suggest new avenues of research. |
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spelling | pubmed-89690742022-04-01 Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda McLauchlin, Theodore Seymour, Lee JM Martel, Simon Pierre Boulanger J Peace Res Special Data Features Training other countries’ armed forces is a go-to foreign policy tool for the United States and other states. A growing literature explores the effects of military training, but researchers lack detailed data on training activities. To assess the origins and consequences of military training, as well as changing patterns over time, this project provides a new, global dataset of US foreign military training. This article describes the scope of the data along with the variables collected, coding procedures, and spatial and temporal patterns. We demonstrate the added value of the data in their much greater coverage of training activities, showing differences from both existing datasets and aggregate foreign military aid data. Reanalyzing prior research findings linking US foreign military training to the risk of coups d’état in recipient states, we find that this effect is limited to a single US program representing a small fraction of overall US training activities. The data show comprehensively how the United States attempts to influence partner military forces in a wide variety of ways and suggest new avenues of research. SAGE Publications 2022-02-20 2022-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8969074/ /pubmed/35370305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00223433211047715 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Special Data Features McLauchlin, Theodore Seymour, Lee JM Martel, Simon Pierre Boulanger Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda |
title | Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda |
title_full | Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda |
title_fullStr | Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda |
title_full_unstemmed | Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda |
title_short | Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda |
title_sort | tracking the rise of united states foreign military training: imtad-usa, a new dataset and research agenda |
topic | Special Data Features |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8969074/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35370305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00223433211047715 |
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