Journal ArticleArmed Forces and Society · April 1, 2025
The central concern of civil–military relations theory is how to have a military institution simultaneously strong enough to protect society and the state from enemies while also properly sized and obedient enough not to pose a threat itself to that societ ...
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Book · July 20, 2023
A definitive study on the decades-long run of high public confidence in the military and why it may rest on some shaky foundations. What explains the high levels of public confidence in the US military and does high confidence matter? In Thanks for Your Se ...
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Journal ArticleArmed Forces and Society · January 1, 2023
This assessment of the “policy-academy” gap is part of a special forum stimulated by Michael Desch’s book, Cult of the Irrelevant. Those who write about the academy–policy gap worry that the gap is too narrow, resulting in ethical compromise, or too wide, ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Strategic Studies · February 23, 2018
This article reassesses the foreign policy legacy of George W. Bush in light of the emerging historical record of his administration. We conclude that, whereas Bush’s foreign policy was in widespread disrepute when he left office in 2009, that reputation i ...
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Journal ArticleArmed Forces and Society · January 1, 2018
Do military endorsements influence Americans’ political and foreign policy views? We find that senior military officers have the ability to nudge public attitudes under certain conditions. Through a series of large, survey-based experiments, with nearly 12 ...
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Journal ArticleOrbis · January 1, 2018
Contemporary judgments of George W. Bush's foreign policy were often quite harsh and polemical. In this article, we argue that a moderate form of Bush revisionism is likely to emerge in the coming years, as scholars take a more dispassionate look at his ac ...
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Journal ArticleSurvival · May 4, 2017
The most fateful American choice in the rise of ISIS was also the oldest one: the 2003 decision to invade Iraq, followed by the mismanagement of the occupation. ...
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Journal ArticleArmed Forces and Society · January 1, 2017
Advocates of cultivating a resignation-in-protest ethic understate the costs and exaggerate the benefits. Military officers who believe that the policymaking process is heading in a bad direction already have ample recourse in the form of advising within t ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2014
Political science theory is policy relevant, consider two ongoing academic debates on proliferation, the 'optimist-pessimist' debate, and the closely related 'managing proliferation' debate. The optimist-pessimist debate concerns whether the spread of nucl ...
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Book · October 30, 2011
America's debate over whether and how to invade Iraq clustered into civilian versus military camps. Top military officials appeared reluctant to use force, the most hawkish voices in government were civilians who had not served in uniform, and everyone was ...
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Journal ArticleChoosing Your Battles American Civil Military Relations and the Use of Force · October 30, 2011
America's debate over whether and how to invade Iraq clustered into civilian versus military camps. Top military officials appeared reluctant to use force, the most hawkish voices in government were civilians who had not served in uniform, and everyone was ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Studies Quarterly · June 1, 2011
Recent scholarship on international institutions has begun to explore potentially powerful indirect pathways by which international institutions may influence states' domestic politics and thereby influence the foreign policy preferences and strategies of ...
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Book · February 9, 2009
From the Korean War to the current conflict in Iraq, Paying the Human Costs of War examines the ways in which the American public decides whether to support the use of military force. Contrary to the conventional view, the authors demonstrate that the publ ...
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Book · February 9, 2009
From the Korean War to the current conflict in Iraq,Paying the Human Costs of Warexamines the ways in which the American public decides whether to support the use of military force. Contrary to the conventional view, the authors demonstrate that the public ...
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Journal ArticleCommentary · April 1, 2008
Developing and implementing a workable strategy that can be handed over to Bush's successor is a big challenge. Although key developments can be made during President Bush tenure, his actions will all be carried out on the next administration. A new and di ...
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Journal ArticlePolitical Behavior · June 1, 2007
In this article, we model the effect of foreign policy attitudes on both vote choice and casualty tolerance, using survey data collected during the 2004 election. We show that prospective judgments of the likelihood of success in Iraq and retrospective jud ...
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Journal ArticleAnnual Review of Political Science · July 14, 2006
Public opinion is central to representation, democratic accountability, and decision making. Yet, the public was long believed to be relatively uninterested in foreign affairs, absent an immediate threat to safety and welfare. It had become conventional to ...
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Journal ArticleArmed Forces and Society · January 1, 2006
Recent research on U.S. civil-military relations has applied principal-agent logic to analyze the post-cold war friction between civilian authorities and top military commanders. This article proposes a greater emphasis on bargaining to focus on the effect ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Political Science Review · January 1, 2002
Other research has shown (1) that civilians and the military differ in their views about when and how to use military force; (2) that the opinions of veterans track more closely with military officers than with civilians who never served in the military; a ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Studies Quarterly · January 1, 1996
The nonproliferation regime, which denies countries access to critical materials, makes it more likely that defiant proliferators will develop unsafe arsenals. In order to manage proliferation, the U.S. could continue to uphold the regime, hoping to persua ...
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