Buying National Security: How America Plans and Pays for Its Global Role and Safety at Home

by Cindy Williams and Gordon Adams

Book Overview

The tools of American statecraft-defense, diplomacy, foreign and security assistance, homeland security and intelligence-are rarely examined together. Adams and Williams fill this gap by examining how these tools work, how they are planned for, and how they are budgeted. Seeing policy through the lens of the budget can help decision makers and ordinary citizens discern the genuine priorities of national leaders from the oftentimes illusory ones...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415954401
• ISBN13: 9780415954402
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"