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Summary:

Security cooperation is the umbrella term used to describe a wide range of programs and activities with such goals as building relationships between the United States and partner countries, developing these countries' security capabilities, and facilitating contingency and peacetime access by U.S. forces. With increased pressure on defense spending, the scope and budget for these activities are likely to decrease. Therefore, it will be important for the U.S. Department of Defense to scrutinize and, perhaps, reevaluate current and proposed security cooperation efforts, ensuring that expected benefits align with costs and corresponding policy priorities. Recent RAND research identified practices and contextual factors associated with greater or lesser degrees of success in security cooperation, using 29 historical case studies of U.S. efforts to build partner capacity since the end of the Cold War. The RAND Security Cooperation Prioritization and Propensity Matching Tool applies these findings and results from other existing research to all current and potential security cooperation partners. This customizable diagnostic tool, built in Microsoft Excel®, will help planners preliminarily identify mismatches between the importance of a country to U.S. interests, funding for initiatives, and the propensity for successful U.S. security cooperation with a given country. For each of the world's 195 countries, the tool produces an overall security cooperation propensity score. Planners can then compare these scores with available funding and security cooperation priorities. The tool has the virtues of being systematic, being based on global data, and not relying on subjective assessments. Strategic thinking and nuanced understanding of individual countries remain important, but the tool is useful in helping to identify which countries to scrutinize.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: prioritizing security cooperation
• Foundational RAND research: what works best when building partner capacity and under what circumstances?
• Research and tool development
• The RAND security cooperation prioritization and propensity matching tool
• Conclusions: appropriate employment of the tool
• Appendix A: Categories, constructs, and measures
• Appendix B: Tool validation through case studies
• Appendix C: Mathematical methods
• Appendix D: Updating the currency of the tool.

Author/Creator:

Paul, Christopher, 1971- , author

Contributors:

Nixon, Michael J. (Michael Joseph) , author

Peterson, Heather , author

Grill, Beth , author

Yeats, Jessica M. , author

International Security and Defense Policy Center

National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)

Rand Corporation , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

United States Department of Defense > Office of the Secretary of Defense

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English.

Main Work:

The RAND security cooperation prioritization and propensity matching tool [by Paul, C.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: RAND security cooperation prioritization and propensity matching tool [by Paul, C.] (Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2013 — LCCN 2013954302)

Subjects:

Decision making — Data processing

Military assistance, American — Planning

National security — International cooperation

Security, International

United States — Foreign relations — 1989-

United States — Military policy

Since 1989

Decision making

Military assistance, American

Planning

National security

Diplomatic relations

Military policy

United States

General Notes:

"RAND National Defense Research Institute."
"This research was ... conducted within the International Security and Defense Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-57).
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (57 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

UA12 .P385 2013eb

ISBNs:

9780833084606 (electronic bk.)
0833084607 (electronic bk.)
0833080989 [Invalid]
9780833080981 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Standard Technical Report Number: RAND/TL-112-OSD

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2013954302

OCLC Numbers:

870532447