Military Politics

New Perspectives

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-023-7 (ISBN)

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Bringing together new research by leading scholars, this volume rethinks the role played by militaries in politics. It introduces new theories of military politics, arguing against the inherited theories and practices of civil-military relations, and presents rich new data on senior officership and on the intersection of military politics and military operations. As the first volume in Berghahn Books’ Military Politics series, it provides a blueprint for a new research paradigm dedicated to tracing how militaries shape their political environments, focusing particularly on the core democratic questions raised by politically-effective (and ineffective) militaries.

Thomas Crosbie is an Associate Professor of military operations at the Royal Danish Defence College. In addition to his articles and book chapters, he has edited volumes on the privatization of security (with Ori Swed), paramilitary culture (with Brad West), and maritime operations (with Edward R. Lucas, Samuel Rivera-Paez, and Felix Falck Jensen).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Breach, Neglect, Guidance

Thomas Crosbie

Part I: New Theoretical Perspectives

Chapter 1. What is Military Politics?

Thomas Crosbie

Chapter 2. Rethinking Clausewitz’s Chameleon: Is It Time for Western Militaries to Abandon the Idea of War’s Immutable Nature?

Anders Theis Bollmann and Søren Sjøgren

Part II: New Perspectives on Senior Officership

Chapter 3. Military Contrarianism: The Case of Israel

Yagil Levy

Chapter 4. Embedded in Politics: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, its Chairman, and the Structure of U.S. Civil-Military Relations

Sharon K. Weiner

Chapter 5. Civil-Military Challenges and the Militia

James Campbell

Chapter 6. Strategic Civil-Military Relations: Tomorrow’s Generals’ Views on Dissent, Disobedience and Principled Resignation

Steven Lee Katz

Part III: Military Politics and Military Operations

Chapter 7. Military Politics on the Battlefield: Strategy and Effectiveness in War

Carrie A. Lee

Chapter 8. Begging Permission, Asking Forgiveness: Explaining How Officers Handle Wearing Two Hats in Multilateral Military Operations

Stephen M. Saideman

Chapter 9. Judges on the Battlefield? Judicial Observer Effects in US and UK National Security Policies

Lena Trabucco

Chapter 10. Small Powers’ Civil-Military Relations: Two Smoking Guns

Carsten Roennfeldt

Conclusion: Military Politics as Research Program

Thomas Crosbie

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Erscheinungsdatum	20.06.2023
Reihe/Serie	Military Politics
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-80539-023-6 / 1805390236
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-023-7 / 9781805390237
Zustand	Neuware