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Armed Servants

Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations

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Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations

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"In this book, Peter Feaver proposes an ambitious new theory of civil-military relations in which the civil-military connection is best conceived as a principal-agent relationship, with the civilian executive directing and monitoring the actions of military agents, the "armed servants" of the nation-state. Military obedience is not automatic. It depends on the calculations of both parties, which determine whether the connection will be tight or loose.".

"This model challenges Samuel Huntington's professionalism-based model of civil-military relations, and provides an innovative way of making sense of the U.S. Cold War and post-Cold War experience - especially the distinctively stormy civil-military relations of the Clinton era. In the decade after the Cold War ended, civilians and the military had a variety of run-ins over whether and how to use military force.

These episodes, as interpreted by agency theory, contradict the conventional wisdom that civil-military relations matter only if there is risk of a coup. On the contrary, military professionalism does not by itself ensure unchallenged civilian authority. As Feaver argues, agency theory offers the best foundation for thinking about relations between military and civilian leaders."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
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400

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Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations
2009, Harvard University Press
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Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations
March 15, 2005, Harvard University Press
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Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations
2005, Harvard University Press
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Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations
April 15, 2003, Harvard University Press
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Library of Congress
JK330 .F43 2003, JK330.F43 2003

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
400
Dimensions
9.4 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
Weight
1.5 pounds

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Open Library
OL7670884M
ISBN 10
0674010515
ISBN 13
9780674010512
LCCN
2002192215
OCLC/WorldCat
50803509
Library Thing
1040337

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