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Border Control Services and Security Sector Reform

Overview This paper provides a baseline of knowledge and reference materials to support future work on the role of border control services in security sector reform (SSR). It summarizes the current state of research on border control services in the broader context of SSR, examines the discursive field, and identifies the relevance to border services of the concept of democratic control.

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Publisher	Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	July 2002	Downloads	4
Format	White Papers
Topics	Border Security

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