An American Crisis in Civilian Control and Civil-Military Relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4524243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter D Feaver, Peter Feaver (0000-0001-6386-1463, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 159-182 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0730-479X • E-ISSN: 1918-6649 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/ttr.17.1.159 |
| OpenAlex | W4205133306 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Who décidés and what do they gct to décidé?1 This is the central normative question in civil-military relations theory, and disagrccment over the correct answer is behind much of what passes for the currcnt 'crisis' in American civil-military relations. So far. the American answer appears to havc solved tire problem that prcoccupies most comparative civil-military relations theorists: how to keep the military from taking over the governmcnt. Yct American history is rife with civil-military conflict because the American answer Icaves unresolved the other problem inhérent in the civil-military relationship: finding the proper division of labor belween civilian and military institutions, cspccially on use of force decisions
Civil–military relations · Military operations other than war · Military science · Military sociology · Military threat · Normative · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · Law · Military and Defense Studies · Military History and Strategy
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2017 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |