Douglas A Borer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1480263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas A Borer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas A |
| FAMILY NAME | Borer |
| SIGNATURE | BORER D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Naval Postgraduate School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The US Military in Hawai‘i: Colonialism, memory and resistance. By Brian Ireland
Blundering into Baghdad: An analysis of strategy, structure, principals and agents
Some postmortems of the Bush Administration's pre-Iraq war decision-making have focused on a dysfunctional National Security Council (NSC) structure as the major reason for the lack of a thorough strategic assessment prior to the March 2003 invasion. Other academic and journalistic accounts have focused on a lack of a first rate conceptual thinker at the top levels of the Bush Administration as an important cause of the strategic shortcomings in …
Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the making of American military empire after World War II. By Michael Cullen Green
Black Yanks in the Pacific: race in the making of American military empire after World War II. By Michael Cullen Green. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2010. x+206 pp., illus., bibliog
Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy – By William C. Martel
Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy . By William C. Martel . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2007 . 436 pp . William C. Martel, associate professor of international security studies in the Fletcher School at Tufts University, seeks to provide a theory of victory in war. His desire is to offer assistance to political leaders (and the academics who would advise them) on questions regarding military policy. With the war in …
Global Development and Human (In)security: Understanding the rise of the Rajah Solaiman Movement and Balik Islam in the Philippines
Over the past 30 years rapid advances in the realm of digital technology and the establishment of an ever expanding globally networked communications infrastructure have radically altered the infrastructure of the global economy. Combined with new rules for international finance, the de-regulation of capital and labour markets and the embracing of a ‘free trade’ ethos by most states in the international system, today's ‘information age’ bears lit…
Rethinking the Cuban Embargo: An Inductive Analysis
One of history's most beloved and heavily paraphrased literary vignettes is found in Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle's short story Silver Blaze. In this tale, the famous detective Sherlock Holmes is able to solve the unfathomable disappearance of a prize racehorse and the bizarre death of its trainer by discerning the critical importance of an event that did not transpire when it should have. Upon being asked by Silver Blaze's owner Colonel Ross, “Is ther…
The Long War: Insurgency, counterinsurgency and collapsing states
This introductory article provides the context for the contemporary debate about insurgency, counterinsurgency and collapsing states taking place against the backdrop of what originated as the ‘global war on terror’ (gwot) and is now increasingly being characterised as ‘the Long War’. The Long War and the gwot are often represented as a ‘new’ era in warfare and US geopolitics, despite the fact that, rhetorically, George W Bush and other administr…
All roads lead to and from Iraq: The Long War and the transformation of the nation-state system
This concluding article returns to some of the key themes of this volume in relation to insurgency, counter-insurgency and collapsing states. In particular it attempts to characterise the relationship between the Long War and the Cold War, in relation to the transformation of the nation-state system. More broadly it emphasises that the Cold War was an often misdirected, militarised struggle between ‘genuinely existing’ liberal capitalism and ‘gen…
Rejected by the New York Times? Why Academics Struggle to Get Published in National Newspapers
At one time or another the bug to write an editorial strikes many in our profession. Our motivation is driven by disgust in what we see in the media, where many of the pundits are, for lack of a more nuanced description, idiots. However, we must admit that we are also motivated by the lure of celebrity. Viewing one's name in print in a format other than some stodgy academic journal, and having people say “I read your piece in the paper,” is an ex…
Russian Authoritarian Pluralism: A Local and Global Trend
Russia is a country that has witnessed increasingly authoritarian governance over the last decade. Civil liberties have been curtailed; local and regional political power has been usurped by the Kremlin. Russia remains a democracy insomuch as elections are conducted, but increasingly those elections are so heavily influenced by state control over the media and fiscal elements of social power that substantive Western notions of democracy have grea…
Where Oil andWater Do Mix: Environmental Scarcity and Future Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa
Many of the wars of the 20th century were about oil, but wars of the 21st century will be over water
Inverse Engagement: Lessons from US-Iraq Relations, 1982-1990
ebruary 2003 marked the 12th anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait by the United States and its global allies and their near-total victory over the military forces of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Operation Desert Storm. However, much to the surprise of members of the first Bush Administration, academic scholars, military analysts, media pundits, foreign policy experts, and the average layman, Saddam Hussein remained in power in Iraq and co…
The Chechen Exception: Rethinking Russia's Human Rights Policy
Orthodox interpretations of human rights policies and practices in post-Soviet Russia are often construed by external critics through a historicist lens of tsarist and Soviet-era authoritarianism. Contemporary Russia's adherence to emerging international human rights norms is commonly judged in sole reference to its human rights disaster in Chechnya. In this article, we contest the notion that human rights abuses in Chechnya fully illustrate Russ…
Americans Against America: The Legacy of Cold War Secrecy and the Crisis of Public Trust
This commentary addresses problems of political legitimacy in America. Using specific examples from the Cold War, we show how the development of a national security subculture of secrecy in the federal government served to undermine the core sources of legitimacy that lie at the heart of democracy. The analysis demonstrates how patterns of government behavior during the Cold War provided the material for conspiracy theories that erode trust among…
The Rise of East Asia: Critical Visions of the Pacific Century
War loss and political reform: An ongoing pattern in Russian history
This paper argues that the collapse of the Soviet state in 1991 was part of a distinct and ongoing pattern in Russian history in which each major alteration of the political fabric of Russia has been accompanied by a loss in an interstate conflict. It is not argued that loss in a foreign war is the sole cause for political reform; rather, it is shown that major political changes in Russian history have never occurred in the absence of defeat in a…
The Ugly Process of Journal Submissions: A Call for Reform
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Allies at War: The Soviet, American, and British Experience, 1939-1945
Preface - Introduction - PART I STRATEGY - Great Britain: The Indirect Strategy A. Danchev - The Soviet Union: The Direct Strategy O.A. Rzheshevsky - The United States: The Global Strategy M.A.Stoler - Coalition: Structure, Strategy, and Statecraft T.A.Wilson et al - PART II ECONOMY - Great Britain: Cyclops R.J.Overy - The Soviet Union: Phoenix L.V.Pozdeeva - The United States: Leviathan T.A.Wilson - Cooperation: Trade, Aid, and Technology R.J.Ov…
The Afghan War: Communism's First Domino
The genesis of a forgotten war: Containment in Afghanistan 1947–1956
After a decade of steady U.S. military aid to the Mujahedin, the final Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan was seen by many Western observers as a concrete affirmation of the continued validity of containment as the primary doctrine in U.S. foreign policy. The following essay challenges this positive conclusion by investigating the roots of containment in South Asia in the first decade following World War II. It is argued that containment was an i…
Untying the Afghan Knot: Negotiating the Soviet Withdrawal, by Riaz M. Khan
The Afghan War: Communism's First Domino
The Long War: Insurgency, counterinsurgency and collapsing states
This introductory article provides the context for the contemporary debate about insurgency, counterinsurgency and collapsing states taking place against the backdrop of what originated as the ‘global war on terror’ (gwot) and is now increasingly being characterised as ‘the Long War’. The Long War and the gwot are often represented as a ‘new’ era in warfare and US geopolitics, despite the fact that, rhetorically, George W Bush and other administr…
Rejected by the New York Times? Why Academics Struggle to Get Published in National Newspapers
At one time or another the bug to write an editorial strikes many in our profession. Our motivation is driven by disgust in what we see in the media, where many of the pundits are, for lack of a more nuanced description, idiots. However, we must admit that we are also motivated by the lure of celebrity. Viewing one's name in print in a format other than some stodgy academic journal, and having people say “I read your piece in the paper,” is an ex…
The Chechen Exception: Rethinking Russia's Human Rights Policy
Orthodox interpretations of human rights policies and practices in post-Soviet Russia are often construed by external critics through a historicist lens of tsarist and Soviet-era authoritarianism. Contemporary Russia's adherence to emerging international human rights norms is commonly judged in sole reference to its human rights disaster in Chechnya. In this article, we contest the notion that human rights abuses in Chechnya fully illustrate Russ…
Blundering into Baghdad: An analysis of strategy, structure, principals and agents
Some postmortems of the Bush Administration's pre-Iraq war decision-making have focused on a dysfunctional National Security Council (NSC) structure as the major reason for the lack of a thorough strategic assessment prior to the March 2003 invasion. Other academic and journalistic accounts have focused on a lack of a first rate conceptual thinker at the top levels of the Bush Administration as an important cause of the strategic shortcomings in …
Rethinking the Cuban Embargo: An Inductive Analysis
One of history's most beloved and heavily paraphrased literary vignettes is found in Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle's short story Silver Blaze. In this tale, the famous detective Sherlock Holmes is able to solve the unfathomable disappearance of a prize racehorse and the bizarre death of its trainer by discerning the critical importance of an event that did not transpire when it should have. Upon being asked by Silver Blaze's owner Colonel Ross, “Is ther…
Untying the Afghan Knot: Negotiating the Soviet Withdrawal, by Riaz M. Khan
The genesis of a forgotten war: Containment in Afghanistan 1947–1956
After a decade of steady U.S. military aid to the Mujahedin, the final Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan was seen by many Western observers as a concrete affirmation of the continued validity of containment as the primary doctrine in U.S. foreign policy. The following essay challenges this positive conclusion by investigating the roots of containment in South Asia in the first decade following World War II. It is argued that containment was an i…
Untying the Afghan Knot: Negotiating the Soviet Withdrawal, by Riaz M. Khan
The Afghan War: Communism's First Domino
Allies at War: The Soviet, American, and British Experience, 1939-1945
Preface - Introduction - PART I STRATEGY - Great Britain: The Indirect Strategy A. Danchev - The Soviet Union: The Direct Strategy O.A. Rzheshevsky - The United States: The Global Strategy M.A.Stoler - Coalition: Structure, Strategy, and Statecraft T.A.Wilson et al - PART II ECONOMY - Great Britain: Cyclops R.J.Overy - The Soviet Union: Phoenix L.V.Pozdeeva - The United States: Leviathan T.A.Wilson - Cooperation: Trade, Aid, and Technology R.J.Ov…
The Rise of East Asia: Critical Visions of the Pacific Century
War loss and political reform: An ongoing pattern in Russian history
This paper argues that the collapse of the Soviet state in 1991 was part of a distinct and ongoing pattern in Russian history in which each major alteration of the political fabric of Russia has been accompanied by a loss in an interstate conflict. It is not argued that loss in a foreign war is the sole cause for political reform; rather, it is shown that major political changes in Russian history have never occurred in the absence of defeat in a…
The Ugly Process of Journal Submissions: A Call for Reform
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Americans Against America: The Legacy of Cold War Secrecy and the Crisis of Public Trust
This commentary addresses problems of political legitimacy in America. Using specific examples from the Cold War, we show how the development of a national security subculture of secrecy in the federal government served to undermine the core sources of legitimacy that lie at the heart of democracy. The analysis demonstrates how patterns of government behavior during the Cold War provided the material for conspiracy theories that erode trust among…
The Chechen Exception: Rethinking Russia's Human Rights Policy
Orthodox interpretations of human rights policies and practices in post-Soviet Russia are often construed by external critics through a historicist lens of tsarist and Soviet-era authoritarianism. Contemporary Russia's adherence to emerging international human rights norms is commonly judged in sole reference to its human rights disaster in Chechnya. In this article, we contest the notion that human rights abuses in Chechnya fully illustrate Russ…
Inverse Engagement: Lessons from US-Iraq Relations, 1982-1990
ebruary 2003 marked the 12th anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait by the United States and its global allies and their near-total victory over the military forces of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Operation Desert Storm. However, much to the surprise of members of the first Bush Administration, academic scholars, military analysts, media pundits, foreign policy experts, and the average layman, Saddam Hussein remained in power in Iraq and co…
Where Oil andWater Do Mix: Environmental Scarcity and Future Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa
Many of the wars of the 20th century were about oil, but wars of the 21st century will be over water
Rejected by the New York Times? Why Academics Struggle to Get Published in National Newspapers
At one time or another the bug to write an editorial strikes many in our profession. Our motivation is driven by disgust in what we see in the media, where many of the pundits are, for lack of a more nuanced description, idiots. However, we must admit that we are also motivated by the lure of celebrity. Viewing one's name in print in a format other than some stodgy academic journal, and having people say “I read your piece in the paper,” is an ex…
Russian Authoritarian Pluralism: A Local and Global Trend
Russia is a country that has witnessed increasingly authoritarian governance over the last decade. Civil liberties have been curtailed; local and regional political power has been usurped by the Kremlin. Russia remains a democracy insomuch as elections are conducted, but increasingly those elections are so heavily influenced by state control over the media and fiscal elements of social power that substantive Western notions of democracy have grea…
Rethinking the Cuban Embargo: An Inductive Analysis
One of history's most beloved and heavily paraphrased literary vignettes is found in Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle's short story Silver Blaze. In this tale, the famous detective Sherlock Holmes is able to solve the unfathomable disappearance of a prize racehorse and the bizarre death of its trainer by discerning the critical importance of an event that did not transpire when it should have. Upon being asked by Silver Blaze's owner Colonel Ross, “Is ther…
The Long War: Insurgency, counterinsurgency and collapsing states
This introductory article provides the context for the contemporary debate about insurgency, counterinsurgency and collapsing states taking place against the backdrop of what originated as the ‘global war on terror’ (gwot) and is now increasingly being characterised as ‘the Long War’. The Long War and the gwot are often represented as a ‘new’ era in warfare and US geopolitics, despite the fact that, rhetorically, George W Bush and other administr…
All roads lead to and from Iraq: The Long War and the transformation of the nation-state system
This concluding article returns to some of the key themes of this volume in relation to insurgency, counter-insurgency and collapsing states. In particular it attempts to characterise the relationship between the Long War and the Cold War, in relation to the transformation of the nation-state system. More broadly it emphasises that the Cold War was an often misdirected, militarised struggle between ‘genuinely existing’ liberal capitalism and ‘gen…
Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy – By William C. Martel
Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy . By William C. Martel . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2007 . 436 pp . William C. Martel, associate professor of international security studies in the Fletcher School at Tufts University, seeks to provide a theory of victory in war. His desire is to offer assistance to political leaders (and the academics who would advise them) on questions regarding military policy. With the war in …
Global Development and Human (In)security: Understanding the rise of the Rajah Solaiman Movement and Balik Islam in the Philippines
Over the past 30 years rapid advances in the realm of digital technology and the establishment of an ever expanding globally networked communications infrastructure have radically altered the infrastructure of the global economy. Combined with new rules for international finance, the de-regulation of capital and labour markets and the embracing of a ‘free trade’ ethos by most states in the international system, today's ‘information age’ bears lit…
Blundering into Baghdad: An analysis of strategy, structure, principals and agents
Some postmortems of the Bush Administration's pre-Iraq war decision-making have focused on a dysfunctional National Security Council (NSC) structure as the major reason for the lack of a thorough strategic assessment prior to the March 2003 invasion. Other academic and journalistic accounts have focused on a lack of a first rate conceptual thinker at the top levels of the Bush Administration as an important cause of the strategic shortcomings in …
Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the making of American military empire after World War II. By Michael Cullen Green
Black Yanks in the Pacific: race in the making of American military empire after World War II. By Michael Cullen Green. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2010. x+206 pp., illus., bibliog
The US Military in Hawai‘i: Colonialism, memory and resistance. By Brian Ireland
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