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<P align=left><FONT size=4>Gordon Peake (2011): Partnerships and International Policing: The</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=4>Reach and Limits of Policy Processes, International Peacekeeping, 18:5, 612-626</FONT></P>
<DIV><FONT size=4> </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size=4>Abstract </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color=#231f20 face=AdvPS5958><FONT color=#231f20 face=AdvPS5958><FONT color=#231f20 face=AdvPS5958>
<P align=left><FONT size=4>Although the concept of partnership offers little substantively new to the theory and practice</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=4>of peace operations, it provides a useful political frame to advance reform efforts in UN</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=4>policing. In the last few years, several improvements have been made in doctrine, training</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=4>and increasing the pace of deployment. However, the case of Timor-Leste suggests that</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=4>these efforts have not resulted in obvious improvements in the abilities of the UN Police</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=4>(UNPOL) to carry out their mandated functions. Solutions offered by the New Horizon</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=4>agenda are technical and do not address the political dimensions of the problems encountered</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=4>in field missions. In Timor-Leste, the host government is not interested in engaging in</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=4>a partnership with UNPOL. Problems with international policing may be so deep, complex</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=4>and subject to politics that even substantial process-oriented solutions will not achieve</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=4>significant results.</FONT></P></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT size=4> </FONT></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> </DIV></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV> </DIV>--<BR signature="separator">Dr Bu V.E. Wilson<br />T: Australia +61 0 407 087 086<br />T: Timor-Leste + 670 744 0011<br />E: buvewilson@gmail.com