Inescapable Entrapments?
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Inescapable Entrapments?

The Civil-Military Decision Paths to Uruzgan and Helmand

  1. 297 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Inescapable Entrapments?

The Civil-Military Decision Paths to Uruzgan and Helmand

About this book

"Military involvement in foreign policy decision-making, and its role as a driving force in that process, has long been anathema to both academic and practitioner circles. Without wanting to pursue the quest for principles or ultimate predictions this study looks specifically into the role of the military in foreign policy decision-making. It does so by carefully reconstructing and comparing the sequential series of decisions of a group of British and Dutch senior civil and military decision-makers which have led to the deployment of their militaries into to Afghan provinces of Helmand and Uruzgan. One of the most prominent findings of this analysis is the shaping ability of military initiatives on the series of decisions and the consequent path dependent reasoning during political deliberations on the deployment of military forces: the decision of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands to deploy their troops to southern Afghanistan was based on an emergent case that largely built itself. "

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction By Professor Hew Strachan
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1 Introduction: The Script and Its Cast
  8. 2 Civil-Military Decision-makers within their Theoretical Context
  9. 3 The Analytical Prism
  10. 4 From Regime Change, to Peace Building, to Countering Insurgents: stabilising Afghanistan
  11. 5 The Decision Path to Uruzgan
  12. 6 The Decision Path to Helmand
  13. 7 Cross-Case Analysis: A Powerful Idea Meets a Window of Opportunity
  14. 8 Findings Inescapable Entrapments: Informal Action Channels, and Path-Dependent Reasoning
  15. 9 Avenues for Future Research: Bridging the Theory-Practice Nexus in Strategic Studies
  16. List of respondents
  17. Bibliography
  18. Notes
  19. Index