Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations

by Peter D. Feaver

Book Overview

How do civilians control the military? In the wake of September 11, the renewed presence of national security in everyday life has made this question all the more pressing. In this book, Peter Feaver proposes an ambitious 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. Military obedience is not automatic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674017617
• ISBN13: 9780674017610
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"