Patterns of Professional Education (PME, PGE, PPE)

Basic Data Sources

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  CIA World Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
  
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  International Association of Chiefs of Police http://www.theiacp.org/
  
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  World Regional Office pages http://www.iacpinternational.org/html/ [note that there are some interesting differences in the division of regions, with Kazakhstan, for example, included in MENA, perhaps because it has more Islamic influence? Russia is European, there are a total of six regions]
  
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  Association of the European and Mediterranean Police Forces and Gendarmeries with Military Status http://www.fiep-asso.org/
  
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  Janes’s security risk assessments http://sentinel.janes.com/public/sentinel/index.shtml
  
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  World Police Encyclopedia, Dillip K. Das
  
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  NATO Academy list (69 pp) see nato acads.doc
  
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  International Colleges and Universities by country - http://www.4icu.org/
  
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  Military branches of the service by country and region - http://www.exxun.com/afd/ml_mil_branches/fd_2.html
  
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  There is a comparative wiki article on “military academy” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_academy with entries for military academies and military colleges of 42 countries (these are probably the most important 42)
  
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  Which are the 80 countries with gendarme forces?
  
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  Defence Academies and Colleges e-Learning http://www.dacel.com.au/index.htm who participated? Who is already networked?
  
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  ESDC – European Security and Defence Consortium
  

Instructions to research assistant:

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  Start by scanning the basic data sources then the country narratives below quickly to see what’s there.
  
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  Then dive into the country cases, find what you can about each, insert footnotes to indicate where you found it, and fill in as much detail as you can related to the variables I am collecting. Be brief with the contextual data, and expansive with the information that relates to the variables above.