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Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations

By Peter D. Feaver

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780674036772
DOI
10.4159/9780674036772
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
864 kB (885194 bytes)
Pages
400\395
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 10:55:40

Description

How do civilians control the military? In his book, Feaver proposes a 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.

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