Screen LibraryCivil-military relations and shared responsibility : a four-nation study /
"Dale R. Herspring considers the factors that allow some civilian and military organizations to operate more productively in a political context than others, bringing into comparative study for the first time the military organizations of the U.S., Russia, Germany, and Canada. Refuting the work...
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Baltimore, Maryland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Dale R. Herspring considers the factors that allow some civilian and military organizations to operate more productively in a political context than others, bringing into comparative study for the first time the military organizations of the U.S., Russia, Germany, and Canada. Refuting the work of scholars such as Samuel P. Huntington and Michael C. Desch, Civil-Military Relations and Shared Responsibility approaches civil-military relations from a new angle, military culture, arguing that the optimal form of civil-military relations is one of shared responsibility between the two groups. He |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 349 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-338) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781421409283 (hardback : acid-free paper) : 9781421409290 (electronic) 1421409283 (hardback : acid-free paper) 1421409291 (electronic) |
| Index Number: | JF195 |
| CLC: |
E500.44 E710.44 |
| Call Number: | E710.44/H572 |
| Contents: | A conceptual framework for shared responsibility in civil military relations -- United States -- From Kennedy to Reagan -- From George Bush to Obama -- Germany -- From the creation to Willi Brandt -- From Helmut Schmidt to Merkel -- Canada -- From Hellyer to Trudeau -- From Mulroney to Harper -- Russia -- From the creation of the Russian military to Putin -- From Putin to Medvedev -- Creating shared responsibility in civil military relations. |