作为美国对外军事教育培训援助的关键组成部分,国际军事教育与训练项目(International Military Education and Training Program)由国务院主导,国防安全合作局和国防部共同管理,向盟友和友好国家提供美式军事培训与教育课程。该项目创...作为美国对外军事教育培训援助的关键组成部分,国际军事教育与训练项目(International Military Education and Training Program)由国务院主导,国防安全合作局和国防部共同管理,向盟友和友好国家提供美式军事培训与教育课程。该项目创始于20世纪60年代,发展至今已具有相对完备的法律体系、组织机构及运转模式,体现了美国在对外安全援助领域的创新。基于印度尼西亚的战略价值,美国对其开展的军事教育与训练项目主要围绕人权问题、民主化改革和反恐合作三大议题,以双方认同为基础密切军事联系,以核心人物和利益集团为重点深化美国影响,目光长远、潜移默化地进行思想熏陶并建构"美式认同",推动了美国对印尼政治外交战略的实现,充分体现了对外军事教育培训援助对于实现援助国对外战略的重要意义。展开更多
This paper examines the dynamics, the politics, and the significance of the security relationship between Nigeria and the United States. Both countries, operating at different levels of military strengths, consider an...This paper examines the dynamics, the politics, and the significance of the security relationship between Nigeria and the United States. Both countries, operating at different levels of military strengths, consider and regard themselves as partners who should establish some form of cooperation for defence purposes. Though the United States enjoys massive military capability advantage over Nigeria, the relationship between the two of them was meant to assist Nigeria, the weak partner, or better still, the client state, to overcome the challenge of its defence policies, and to reinforce its military infrastructure. This will be in the areas of training, technology, equipment, professional orientation, and political management. However, there seems to be lack of trust between the two of them with Nigeria becoming too sensitive and concerned about its defence infrastructural deficits, and the possibility of the United States exploiting this to its own advantage. Such worrisome suspicions are capable of tinkering with the objectives of the security arrangements between the two of them. In this kind of suspect friendship where one partner has transformed into a protector state, it became difficult for defence pacts and agreements to achieve the desired objectives. Hence, the regular collapse of such pacts and lack of definitive defence policy actions between the two countries. The findings showed that every attempt by the United States to help stabilize Nigeria’s political system and environment was seen by Nigeria as an unwarranted intervention and meddlesomeness capable of destroying the fragility of its polity as it almost did during the June 12 crisis of 1993.展开更多
文摘作为美国对外军事教育培训援助的关键组成部分,国际军事教育与训练项目(International Military Education and Training Program)由国务院主导,国防安全合作局和国防部共同管理,向盟友和友好国家提供美式军事培训与教育课程。该项目创始于20世纪60年代,发展至今已具有相对完备的法律体系、组织机构及运转模式,体现了美国在对外安全援助领域的创新。基于印度尼西亚的战略价值,美国对其开展的军事教育与训练项目主要围绕人权问题、民主化改革和反恐合作三大议题,以双方认同为基础密切军事联系,以核心人物和利益集团为重点深化美国影响,目光长远、潜移默化地进行思想熏陶并建构"美式认同",推动了美国对印尼政治外交战略的实现,充分体现了对外军事教育培训援助对于实现援助国对外战略的重要意义。
文摘This paper examines the dynamics, the politics, and the significance of the security relationship between Nigeria and the United States. Both countries, operating at different levels of military strengths, consider and regard themselves as partners who should establish some form of cooperation for defence purposes. Though the United States enjoys massive military capability advantage over Nigeria, the relationship between the two of them was meant to assist Nigeria, the weak partner, or better still, the client state, to overcome the challenge of its defence policies, and to reinforce its military infrastructure. This will be in the areas of training, technology, equipment, professional orientation, and political management. However, there seems to be lack of trust between the two of them with Nigeria becoming too sensitive and concerned about its defence infrastructural deficits, and the possibility of the United States exploiting this to its own advantage. Such worrisome suspicions are capable of tinkering with the objectives of the security arrangements between the two of them. In this kind of suspect friendship where one partner has transformed into a protector state, it became difficult for defence pacts and agreements to achieve the desired objectives. Hence, the regular collapse of such pacts and lack of definitive defence policy actions between the two countries. The findings showed that every attempt by the United States to help stabilize Nigeria’s political system and environment was seen by Nigeria as an unwarranted intervention and meddlesomeness capable of destroying the fragility of its polity as it almost did during the June 12 crisis of 1993.
