National Security Policy Complexity: An Analysis of U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Program Effects on Political Terror
Journal: OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network)
Year: 2017

This dissertation examined whether participation in US Defense Security Cooperation (DSC) programs leads to reductions in a regime's willingness to inflict political terror such as extrajudicial killing, torture, disappearances, and political imprisonment.Two objectives framed the research: first, to identify structural factors that give rise to political terror, and second, to assess the efficacy of non-kinetic US intervention policies in allied nations.Though DSC programs are widely studied, t