Armed servants : agency, oversight, and civil-military relations /

How do civilians control the military? In the wake of September 11, the renewed presence of national security in everyday life has made this question all the more pressing. In this book, Peter Feaver proposes an ambitious new theory that treats civil-military relations as a principal-agent relations...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Feaver, Peter D., 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
Temas:
USA > Government
Civil-military relations > United States.
Civil supremacy over the military > United States.
Relations pouvoir civil-pouvoir militaire > États-Unis.
Suprématie du pouvoir civil sur le pouvoir militaire > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
Civil-military relations
Civil supremacy over the military
Militär
Staatsaufsicht
Agency-Theorie
Krijgsmacht.
Controle.
Nationale veiligheid.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Huntington's Cold War Puzzle
  • 3. The Informal Agency Theory
  • 4. A Formal Agency Model of Civil-Military Relations
  • 5. An Agency Theory Solution to the Cold War Puzzle
  • 6. Explaining the Post-Cold War "Crisis," 1990-2000
  • 7. Using Agency Theory to Explore the Use of Force in the Post-Cold War Era
  • 8. Conclusion.

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