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How do civilians control the military? In his book, Feaver proposes a new theory that treats civil-military relations as a principal-agent relationship, with the civilian executive monitoring the actions of military agents, the “armed servants” of the nation-state.

Table of Contents:
Contents Preface 1. Introduction 2. Huntington’s Cold War Puzzle 3. The Informal Agency Theory 4. A Formal Agency Model of Civil-Military Relations 5. An Agency Theory Solution to the Cold War Puzzle 6. Explaining the Post–Cold War “Crisis,” 1990–2000 7. Using Agency Theory to Explore the Use of Force in the Post–Cold War Era 8. Conclusion Notes References Index

About the Author :
Peter D. Feaver is Associate Professor of Political Science, Duke University.

Review :
Peter Feaver's excellent new book, Armed Servants, sheds much-needed light on civil-military relations in the U.S.; indeed, it may come to supplant Samuel Huntington's classic 1957 study of American civil-military relations, The Soldier and the State. Armed Servants should be read not only by academic specialists in national security, but also by military professionals--it will change the way they think about these issues. -- Mackubin Thomas Owens National Review 20030714 Feaver has written one of the best books on civil-military relations in several years...Armed Servants was largely completed before September 11th and published before the second Gulf War, but its implications for both are clear. Agency theory must now be accounted for in civil-military relations, thanks to Feaver. -- C. E. Welch Choice 20031101 The current paradigm of the study of civil-military relations is dominated by some well written and carefully considered works that date from the Cold War...It is interesting to see a new challenge to that paradigm. Feaver has been a rather prolific author, with a number of books and articles on civil-military relations as well as American foreign and defense policies. Armed Servants genesis spans his academic career, and it represents a very well synthesized compilation of his earlier works...Feaver has presented a strong challenge to the existing paradigm. He provides a comprehensive review of the dominant civil-military relations theories as well as a well argued counterpoint to those theories. -- Major James R. McKay Canadian Army Journal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780674036772
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 400
  • ISBN-10: 0674036778
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations


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