Deploying Ourselves: Islamist Violence, Globalization, and the Responsible Projection of U.S. Force

ISBN-13: 9781594517440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str.

David A. Westbrook

Opis

In Deploying Ourselves, David A. Westbrook puts the case for major reform of US national security. He argues that today's national security establishment is outdated and entrenched in a model of defence more befitting the post-World War II Cold War era than today's realities. In a world without military peers, Westbrook argues, the US must re-create its institutions in order to wield influence globally, based on co-operation with other states and groups. Deploying Ourselves includes specific proposals to make US national security institutions more democratically accountable.

Spis treści

Part One Introduction; Chapter One Looking Outward; Chapter Two Looking Inward; Chapter Three Overview of the Argument; Part Two Aspects of Engagement; Chapter Four Naming the Enemy; Chapter Five Political Subjects; Chapter Six Politics Is Now; Chapter Seven The Modernism of Radical Neofundamentalism; Chapter Eight All Politics Is Spatial; Part Three The Challenge of Radical Neofundamentalism; Chapter Nine Bin Laden's Challenge; Chapter Ten Ideological Abstraction and Concrete Presence; Chapter Eleven Peacetime Contests; Chapter Twelve Wartime Contests; Part Four Institutional Reform; Chapter Thirteen New World Security; Chapter Fourteen The Department of Foreign Affairs; Chapter Fifteen The Department of Military Operations; Chapter Sixteen The Reintegration of Intelligence; Part Five Conclusion; Chapter Seventeen Against Thucydides;

O autorze

David A. Westbrook