ABSTRACT
The article presents findings from interview-based and document-driven empirical studies conducted throughout 2010-2012 on SSR-processes in Timor-Leste (1999-2012), Liberia (2003-2012) and the Palestinian Territories (20062012). The domestic contexts of the three cases vary widely yet the nature of international assistance is distinctly similar in each case: starting out with technical assistance programmes primarily geared at creating infrastructure and training security services, over time external interventions became more substantively involved with reforming the management and oversight institutions of domestic security sectors. Focusing on two core standards of the international security governance model – democratic control, and accountability and transparency – our findings highlight that domestic actors were selective in their adoption and adaptation, leading in each case to the further hybridization of domestic security governance.
