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This article analyzes the police restructuring process in Bosnia, and more specifically the role of the European Union in this process, to understand what, and how, different practices, routines and patterns of resistance influenced the timing, direction and outcome of this reform process. It provides a new angle to understand the final outcome of police restructuring by looking at actors' preferences, positions within the field of Security Sector Reform (SSR) and their strategies. The main argument is that a process of 'muddling through' was created by the combination of adaptation and resistance techniques employed by international, European and local actors in the broader police reform dynamics. By empirically demonstrating how and why specific practices of key actors influenced the policy-making process, this article provides a preliminary framework to reassess SSR activities as part of a field of practice, to be analyzed through a sociological lens.
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112767
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This article presents an introduction to the special volume, titled The European Union (EU) and the Security Sector Reform Practices: Challenges of Implementation, by framing the debate on the EU's Security Sector Reform (SSR) activities in a variety of conflict and post-conflict settings. Drawing on the existing body of literature on SSR, the analytical model proposed here allows us to identify, categorize, and group a wide range of factors that are relevant for understanding the performance of the EU as an SSR actor. This article introduces the main themes of this special issue, summarizes each individual contribution briefly, extends the main research findings of this special issue, and concludes with broad commonalities across different cases. It is a conceptual article outlining a discussion of wider theoretical reflections based on the empirical contributions presented in this volume, and provides an explanatory framework for success or failure in the individual case studies that follow.
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112771
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This article addresses the way in which the European Union engages in the implementation of security sector reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Adopting a governance perspective complemented with resource-dependency theory, the analysis concentrates on the multitude of public and private actors involved, the relations between these actors and the impact this has on the implementation of SSR policies in the DRC. Five key variables are analysed: (1) the interplay between inadequate formal procedures and the useful informal coordination practices on the ground in Congo, (2) the variable availability of resources and the interdependencies among the actors, (3) the diverging interests to engage in the Congolese SSR, (4) the different SSR approaches and (5) the variable and sensitive relations with the Congolese authorities.
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