THE FORMATION OF EUROPEAN UNION’S SECURITY SECTOR REFORM POLICY: STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ADJUSTMENT OF POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY
Abstract
The study examines the formation process of European Union’s security sector reform policy. Security sector reform is a transformation program that has been put into practice by international development community at least developed, developing, and transition countries since the late 1990s. Security sector reform, which rests on the positive causality relationship established between development and security, envisages cooperation among international development community and security organizations. In this respect, security sector reform has influenced internal structures of international organizations, their strategies, and policies. This cooperation runs as a policy transfer methodology. European Union, which is assumed to join cooperation for security sector reform and that represents the transferring side, has developed its own security sector reform policy since 2000s. In this context, European Union has undergone an adjustment process for security sector reform cooperation. Within this framework, the study conceptualizes the structural and functional adjustment process of political and administrative authority through the formation of the security sector reform policy.
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