Crisis, agency, and law in US civil-military relations. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Daniel Maurer.
• Authors: Major, Maurer, Daniel
• Contents: Crisis, Agency, and Law in US Civil-Military Relations; Contents; 1 Introduction; Notes; 2 The Opening Statement; The Strategic Civil-Military Relationship Problem; The Scholarship Gap: The Inability to Diagnose Poor Civil-Military Relationships; Applying the Law of Agency; Notes; 3 The Case-In-Chief: What the Law Does (Not) Say; The Constitution Structures Civil-Military Relations; Legislation Organizes Civil-Military Relations; Case Law Remains Silent on Civil-Military Relations; Administrative Regulations Focus on Undue Personal Gain, not Civil-Military Relations Military Doctrine Looks Down and In, not Up and OutNotes; 4 The Expert Witnesses: A Cross-Examination; Huntington, Professionalism, and Two Forms of Control; Janowitz, Civil-Military Fusion, and the Military as a Pressure Group; Cohen and Unequal Partnerships; Feaver, Agency, and Rational Actors; Notes; 5 The Expert Witnesses: The Fingerprints of Agency; Notes; 6 The Rebuttal Witnesses: From Agency to Norms to Diagnosis; Jurisprudential Agency; Notes; 7 Exhibit A: Scope of Responsibility and Authority; President-General-Soldier-in-Chief: The Case of Jefferson Davis McClellan's Megalomania and Ridgeway's RecalcitranceThe Case of the True Believer: Maxwell Taylor; Notes; 8 Boundaries, or a "Poverty of Useful and Unambiguous Authority"?; Notes; 9 Exhibit B: When Fidelity and Frankness Conflict; Revolt of the Admirals; Lincoln's Spy; Notes; 10 Exhibit C: Amending the Goldwater-Nichols Act; Example Draft Text of an Amendment; [Amended] 151. Joints Chiefs of Staff: Composition; Functions; Fiduciary Duties; Goldwater-Nichols Agency Applied; Notes; 11 Exhibit D: The Future Fallacy: A Civ-Mil Dialogue; Notes; 12 Closing Argument; Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 322.50973; Political science; Civil-military relations -- United States; Military law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy; Armed Forces -- Public relations; Civil-military relations; Military law; Political Science -- Government -- General; Social Science -- Criminology; Law -- Reference; History -- Military -- General; Politics & government; Law & society; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Military history; Politics and war; Law and the social sciences; Military history; Political Science -- Political Freedom & Security -- International Security; Warfare & defence; United States -- Armed Forces -- Public relations; United States; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319535265; 3319535269
• Related ISBNs: 9783319535258; 3319535250
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 6, 2017).
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