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Crisis, Agency, and Law in US Civil-Military Relations

By Daniel Maurer (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
978-3-319-53525-8, 978-3-319-53526-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-53526-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6436717 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
IX, 227\231
Time added
2017-06-25 01:08:53
Legal History;History of MilitaryMilitary and Defence Studies;US Politics;Socio-legPhilosophy of Law

Description

This book develops a responsible and practical method for evaluating the success, failure, or “crisis” of American civil-military relations among its political and uniformed elite. The author’s premise is that currently there is no objectively fair way for the public at large or the strategic-level elites to assess whether the critical and often obscured relationships between Generals, Admirals, and Statesmen function as they ought to under the US constitutional system. By treating these relationships—in form and practice—as part of a wider principal (civilian)-agency (military) dynamic, the book tracks the “duties”—care, competence, diligence, confidentiality, scope of responsibility—and perceived shortcomings in the interactions between US civilian political authorities and their military advisors in both peacetime and in war.

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