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Armed servants : agency, oversight, and civil-military relations / Peter D. Feaver.
LIBRA JK330 .F43 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feaver, Peter D., 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil-military relations--United States.
- Civil-military relations.
- United States.
- Civil supremacy over the military--United States.
- Civil supremacy over the military.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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 relationship, with the civilian executive monitoring the actions of military agents, the "armed servants" of the nation-state. Military obedience is not automatic but depends on strategic calculations of whether civilians will catch and punish misbehavior.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-369) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674010515
- OCLC:
- 50803509
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