WarPod Ep #19 | Partner Operations and the Importance of Legitimacy 4 August 2020 Hijab Shah of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Dorith Kool from the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies join the Remote Warfare Programme team to discuss partner legitimacy in security force assistance and security sector reform. Further reading and viewing The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Framework to Assess Security Sectors’ Potential Contribution to Stability Partners, Not Proxies: Capacity Building in Hybrid Warfare Coffin Dancers and COVID19 Virus Mascot 'Pandemic Shaming' Anti-Maskers in Ecuador Chinese video attacking US credibility based on its COVID-19 response CORRECTION: The video mentioned by Hijab Shah in the podcast was from Ecuador not Colombia. Music by Bensound. Image credit: US Army. About the discussants Hijab Shah is an associate fellow with the International Security Program at CSIS. Dorith Kool is a Strategic Analyst at HCSS, where she contributes to projects commissioned by the Dutch Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs. The views expressed by her in this podcast are her own and do not reflect those of the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies or the Dutch Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs. Abigail Watson is the Research Manager at ORG's Remote Warfare Programme. Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen is the Research and Policy Officer at ORG's Remote Warfare Programme.