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188643
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This article explains changing patterns in police militarization in the Middle East and North Africa. It presents new data on police forces in nineteen countries in the region, 1946–2020, which demonstrate that police have become more militarized over time – increasingly adopting the weaponry, tactics, and organizational practices of military forces. The authors distinguish between the use of militarized riot squads and tactical units embedded within otherwise civilian police, to which they refer as “militarized civilian policing,” and more-extensively militarized “paramilitary” police. This study argues that while colonial legacies can help explain the ubiquity of paramilitary policing in former French colonies in particular, the increasing use of riot squads and tactical units in more recent decades has been driven in large part by concerns about military intervention in politics, as well as incentives created by international security assistance programs.
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185075
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Is militarized policing an effective way to combat insurgency? This article uses new global data on policing practices to evaluate whether states with militarized police perform better than those without them. The analysis provides no evidence that militarized police are an asset in counterinsurgency. Indeed, states with militarized units within their national or federal-level police are generally less likely to achieve favorable counterinsurgency outcomes. In explaining these findings, the article emphasizes that while militarization provides police with greater coercive capacity, it also impedes information collection and contributes to indiscriminate violence that can fuel additional dissent.
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