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This dissertation explores the relationship between civilian and military preferences in the United States. A standard measure of the health of the civil-military relationship is whether civilian preferences prevail over military preferences in times of disagreement. Generally, …
The governmental functions of security and intelligence require a number of distinct organisations and functions to interact in a symbiotic way. Because the external environment is uncertain and complex, these organisations must constantly negotiate with each other to establish …
In the hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bush and his top aides frantically sought to prevent what was widely expected to be a wave of terrorist attacks against the United States and its interests around the world. Recognizing that the principles of deterr…
Critics of international relations research point out that most theories of war have paid too much attention to preventive attack cases between major powers, but their assumed universality does not fit preventive attack cases between major and minor powers and ones between minor…
Although the end of the Cold War has led to the cessation of the global East-West arms race of the era, however, military conflicts or arms buildups at local and regional levels have continued unabated. Well-known examples of regional antagonism include Israel and Arab countries…
