Rebecca L Schiff
Biographic Data
| ID | 4134763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca L Schiff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca L |
| FAMILY NAME | Schiff |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIFF R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rhode Island Foundation, Kingston, RI, USA |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-4899-5857 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Concordance Theory
This piece is part of the 50th Anniversary Armed Forces & Society (AF&S) special issue. I am honored to be a part of this selection of essays. I am grateful to my colleagues at AF&S for their expertise and intellectual insights over the years since my original Concordance theory article-'Civil-Military Relations Reconsidered: A Theory of Concordance'-was published in 1995. Any comments made here that reflect on the current state of the academy an…
The Cult of the Irrelevant or Political Narrative
This commentary discusses Michael Desch's book The Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security. Desch offers a respectable and important overview of the history of national security within the social sciences from World War I through current times. He focuses on the gradual irrelevancy of political science and particularly the field of international security. Desch, however, neglects the recent university a…
Concordance Theory in Pakistan
In Zulfiqar Ali's article regarding concordance theory in Pakistan, Dr. Ali asserts that concordance theory does not explain domestic military intervention in Pakistan. He also suggests that concordance theory superimposes a Western theoretical model on Pakistan, like Huntington's theory of objective civilian control. In response to Dr. Ali's claims, this article reiterates how concordance theory can in fact explain why Pakistan has suffered from…
Concordance Theory, Targeted Partnership, and Counterinsurgency Strategy
This study introduces the new concept of targeted partnership, which encourages robust dialogue between military officers and policy makers to create and implement effective military strategy such as counterinsurgency. Targeted partnership is a distillate form of concordance theory or agreement involving reciprocity between the military, political elites, and society for a limited period of time to accomplish a very specific objective. Targeted p…
Concordance Theory
Civil-Military Relations Reconsidered
This article offers a new theory for examining civil-military relations. The current theory assumes that the military should remain separate from civilian political institutions in order to prevent domestic military intervention. By contrast, concordance theory, proposed in this article, argues that three partners-the military, the political elites, and the citizenry should aim for a cooperative relationship that may or may not entail the separat…
Civil-Military Relations Reconsidered
I would like to thank the following people for their helpful comments: Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, John J. Mearsheimer, Marvin Zonis, Moshe Lissak, Henk Goemans, Stephen P. Cohen, Alicia Levine, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Stacy Bergstrom, Bartholemew Sparrow, Stephen Walt, Andrew Wallace, Jill Swenson, Shai Feldman, Ra'anan Gabay, Reuven Gal, Jane Jaquette, Daniel Elazar, Alison Rose, Benjamin Schiff, Danny Leifer, Joseph Cropsey, and Benjamin Frankel. I am …
Civil-Military Relations Reconsidered
This article offers a new theory for examining civil-military relations. The current theory assumes that the military should remain separate from civilian political institutions in order to prevent domestic military intervention. By contrast, concordance theory, proposed in this article, argues that three partners-the military, the political elites, and the citizenry should aim for a cooperative relationship that may or may not entail the separat…
Concordance Theory, Targeted Partnership, and Counterinsurgency Strategy
This study introduces the new concept of targeted partnership, which encourages robust dialogue between military officers and policy makers to create and implement effective military strategy such as counterinsurgency. Targeted partnership is a distillate form of concordance theory or agreement involving reciprocity between the military, political elites, and society for a limited period of time to accomplish a very specific objective. Targeted p…
Concordance Theory in Pakistan
In Zulfiqar Ali's article regarding concordance theory in Pakistan, Dr. Ali asserts that concordance theory does not explain domestic military intervention in Pakistan. He also suggests that concordance theory superimposes a Western theoretical model on Pakistan, like Huntington's theory of objective civilian control. In response to Dr. Ali's claims, this article reiterates how concordance theory can in fact explain why Pakistan has suffered from…
Civil-Military Relations Reconsidered
I would like to thank the following people for their helpful comments: Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, John J. Mearsheimer, Marvin Zonis, Moshe Lissak, Henk Goemans, Stephen P. Cohen, Alicia Levine, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Stacy Bergstrom, Bartholemew Sparrow, Stephen Walt, Andrew Wallace, Jill Swenson, Shai Feldman, Ra'anan Gabay, Reuven Gal, Jane Jaquette, Daniel Elazar, Alison Rose, Benjamin Schiff, Danny Leifer, Joseph Cropsey, and Benjamin Frankel. I am …
The Cult of the Irrelevant or Political Narrative
This commentary discusses Michael Desch's book The Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security. Desch offers a respectable and important overview of the history of national security within the social sciences from World War I through current times. He focuses on the gradual irrelevancy of political science and particularly the field of international security. Desch, however, neglects the recent university a…
Concordance Theory
This piece is part of the 50th Anniversary Armed Forces & Society (AF&S) special issue. I am honored to be a part of this selection of essays. I am grateful to my colleagues at AF&S for their expertise and intellectual insights over the years since my original Concordance theory article-'Civil-Military Relations Reconsidered: A Theory of Concordance'-was published in 1995. Any comments made here that reflect on the current state of the academy an…
Concordance Theory
Civil-Military Relations Reconsidered
I would like to thank the following people for their helpful comments: Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, John J. Mearsheimer, Marvin Zonis, Moshe Lissak, Henk Goemans, Stephen P. Cohen, Alicia Levine, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Stacy Bergstrom, Bartholemew Sparrow, Stephen Walt, Andrew Wallace, Jill Swenson, Shai Feldman, Ra'anan Gabay, Reuven Gal, Jane Jaquette, Daniel Elazar, Alison Rose, Benjamin Schiff, Danny Leifer, Joseph Cropsey, and Benjamin Frankel. I am …
Civil-Military Relations Reconsidered
This article offers a new theory for examining civil-military relations. The current theory assumes that the military should remain separate from civilian political institutions in order to prevent domestic military intervention. By contrast, concordance theory, proposed in this article, argues that three partners-the military, the political elites, and the citizenry should aim for a cooperative relationship that may or may not entail the separat…
Concordance Theory
Concordance Theory, Targeted Partnership, and Counterinsurgency Strategy
This study introduces the new concept of targeted partnership, which encourages robust dialogue between military officers and policy makers to create and implement effective military strategy such as counterinsurgency. Targeted partnership is a distillate form of concordance theory or agreement involving reciprocity between the military, political elites, and society for a limited period of time to accomplish a very specific objective. Targeted p…
Concordance Theory in Pakistan
In Zulfiqar Ali's article regarding concordance theory in Pakistan, Dr. Ali asserts that concordance theory does not explain domestic military intervention in Pakistan. He also suggests that concordance theory superimposes a Western theoretical model on Pakistan, like Huntington's theory of objective civilian control. In response to Dr. Ali's claims, this article reiterates how concordance theory can in fact explain why Pakistan has suffered from…
The Cult of the Irrelevant or Political Narrative
This commentary discusses Michael Desch's book The Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security. Desch offers a respectable and important overview of the history of national security within the social sciences from World War I through current times. He focuses on the gradual irrelevancy of political science and particularly the field of international security. Desch, however, neglects the recent university a…
Concordance Theory
This piece is part of the 50th Anniversary Armed Forces & Society (AF&S) special issue. I am honored to be a part of this selection of essays. I am grateful to my colleagues at AF&S for their expertise and intellectual insights over the years since my original Concordance theory article-'Civil-Military Relations Reconsidered: A Theory of Concordance'-was published in 1995. Any comments made here that reflect on the current state of the academy an…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Concordance (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Civil–military relations (3 works) · Military History and Strategy (3 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)