Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda

Theodore McLauchlin, Lee JM Seymour and Simon Pierre Boulanger Martel
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Theodore McLauchlin: Department of Political Science, Centre d’études sur la paix et la sécurité internationale, Université de Montréal
Lee JM Seymour: Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal
Simon Pierre Boulanger Martel: Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal

Journal of Peace Research, 2022, vol. 59, issue 2, 286-296

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: aid; coups; military training; security assistance; security cooperation; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/00223433211047715

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