Inescapable Entrapments?

The Civil-Military Decision Paths to Uruzgan and Helmand
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-8728-364-3
Verlag: Leiden University Press

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

"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. "

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grandia Mantas, Mirjam

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Militär- und Verteidigungsstrategie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Friedenssicherung, Krisenintervention

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction by Professor Hew Strachan

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Script and Its Cast

Chapter 2 Civil Military Decision-makers within Their Theoretical Context

Chapter 3 The Analytical Prism

Chapter 4 The context: From Regime Change, to Peace Building, to Countering Insurgents: Stabilising Afghanistan

Chapter 5 Case Study: The Decision Path to Uruzgan

Chapter 6 Case Study: The Decision Path to Helmand

Chapter 7 Cross-Case Analysis: A Powerful Idea Meets a Window of Opportunity

Chapter 8 Findings Inescapable Entrapments: Informal Action Channels, and Path Dependent Reasoning

Chapter 9 Avenues for Future Research: Bridging the Theory-Practice Nexus in Strategic Studies

Notes

Bibliography

List of Respondents

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Grandia Mantas, Mirjam
Dr (LtCol) Mirjam Grandia Mantas is a commissioned officer serving in the Royal Netherlands Army, and a scholar. In her military career she has been deployed on various missions to Bosnia, Afghanistan and Ethiopia. She currently holds the post of Assistant Professor of International Security Studies at the War Studies Department of the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy.

Lt. Col. Dr. Mirjam Grandia Mantas is Assistant Professor of International Security Studies at the Netherlands Defence Academy and a commissioned officer serving in the Royal Netherlands Army. In her military career she has been deployed on various missions to Bosnia, Afghanistan and Ethiopia.