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Book Synopsis Bringing together new research by leading scholars, this volume rethinks the role played by militaries in politics. It introduces new theories of military politics, arguing against the inherited theories and practices of civil-military relations, and presents rich new data on senior officership and on the intersection of military politics and military operations. As the first volume in Berghahn Books’ Military Politics series, it provides a blueprint for a new research paradigm dedicated to tracing how militaries shape their political environments, focusing particularly on the core democratic questions raised by politically-effective (and ineffective) militaries.
Trade Review “This volume provides an extremely valuable contribution to the academic and military professional literatures … This volume will quickly become one that individuals turn to in order to inform their thinking and their collegial arguments.” • Alan Okros, Canadian Forces College
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Breach, Neglect, Guidance
Thomas Crosbie
Part I: New Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 1. What is Military Politics?
Thomas Crosbie
Chapter 2. Rethinking Clausewitz’s Chameleon: Is It Time for Western Militaries to Abandon the Idea of War’s Immutable Nature?
Anders Theis Bollmann and Søren Sjøgren
Part II: New Perspectives on Senior Officership
Chapter 3. Military Contrarianism: The Case of Israel
Yagil Levy
Chapter 4. Embedded in Politics: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, its Chairman, and the Structure of U.S. Civil-Military Relations
Sharon K. Weiner
Chapter 5. Civil-Military Challenges and the Militia
James Campbell
Chapter 6. Strategic Civil-Military Relations: Tomorrow’s Generals’ Views on Dissent, Disobedience and Principled Resignation
Steven Lee Katz
Part III: Military Politics and Military Operations
Chapter 7. Military Politics on the Battlefield: Strategy and Effectiveness in War
Carrie A. Lee
Chapter 8. Begging Permission, Asking Forgiveness: Explaining How Officers Handle Wearing Two Hats in Multilateral Military Operations
Stephen M. Saideman
Chapter 9. Judges on the Battlefield? Judicial Observer Effects in US and UK National Security Policies
Lena Trabucco
Chapter 10. Small Powers’ Civil-Military Relations: Two Smoking Guns
Carsten Roennfeldt
Conclusion: Military Politics as Research Program
Thomas Crosbie
References
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