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Shaping Strategy

The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment

By: Risa Brooks

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Shaping Strategy

The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment

By: Risa Brooks

Good strategic assessment does not guarantee success in international relations, but bad strategic assessment dramatically increases the risk of disastrous failure. The most glaring example of this reality is playing out in Iraq today. But what explains why states and their leaders are sometimes so good at strategic assessment--and why they are sometimes so bad at it? Part of the explanation has to do with a state's civil-military relations. In Shaping Strategy, Risa Brooks develops a novel theory of how states' civil-military relations affect strategic assessment during international conflicts. And her conclusions have broad practical importance: to anticipate when states are prone to strategic failure abroad, we must look at how civil-military relations affect the analysis of those strategies at home. Drawing insights from both international relations and comparative politics, Shaping Strategy shows that good strategic assessment depends on civil-military relations that encourage an easy exchange of information and a rigorous analysis of a state's own relative capabilities and strategic environment. Among the diverse case studies the book illuminates, Brooks explains why strategic assessment in Egypt was so poor under Gamal Abdel Nasser prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and why it improved under Anwar Sadat. The book also offers a new perspective on the devastating failure of U.S. planning for the second Iraq war. Brooks argues that this failure, far from being unique, is an example of an assessment pathology to which states commonly succumb.

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Princeton University Press

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0691188289

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Worth the Wait

By: Risa Kirk

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Worth the Wait

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Worth The Wait by Risa Kirk released on Feb 22, 1993 is available now for purchase.

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Harlequin Books

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0373705425

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9780373705429

The Lost Promise of Civil Rights

By: Risa L. Goluboff

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The Lost Promise of Civil Rights

By: Risa L. Goluboff

Listen to a short interview with Risa GoluboffHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane In this groundbreaking book, Risa L. Goluboff offers a provocative new account of the history of American civil rights law. The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education has long dominated that history. Since 1954, generations of judges, lawyers, and ordinary people have viewed civil rights as a project of breaking down formal legal barriers to integration, especially in the context of public education. Goluboff recovers a world before Brown, a world in which civil rights was legally, conceptually, and constitutionally up for grabs. Then, the petitions of black agricultural workers in the American South and industrial workers across the nation called for a civil rights law that would redress economic as well as legal inequalities. Lawyers in the new Civil Rights Section of the Department of Justice and in the NAACP took the workers' cases and viewed them as crucial to attacking Jim Crow. By the time NAACP lawyers set out on the path to Brown, however, they had eliminated workers' economic concerns from their litigation agenda. When the lawyers succeeded in Brown, they simultaneously marginalized the host of other harms--economic inequality chief among them--that afflicted the majority of African Americans during the mid-twentieth century. By uncovering the lost challenges workers and their lawyers launched against Jim Crow in the 1940s, Goluboff shows how Brown only partially fulfilled the promise of civil rights.

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396

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Harvard University Press

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0674024656

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9780674024656

Creating Military Power

The Sources of Military Effectiveness

By: Risa Brooks

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Creating Military Power

The Sources of Military Effectiveness

By: Risa Brooks

Creating Military Power examines how societies, cultures, political structures, and the global environment affect countries' military organizations. Unlike most analyses of countries' military power, which focus on material and basic resources—such as the size of populations, technological and industrial base, and GNP—this volume takes a more expansive view. The study's overarching argument is that states' global environments and the particularities of their cultures, social structures, and political institutions often affect how they organize and prepare for war, and ultimately impact their effectiveness in battle. The creation of military power is only partially dependent on states' basic material and human assets. Wealth, technology, and human capital certainly matter for a country's ability to create military power, but equally important are the ways a state uses those resources, and this often depends on the political and social environment in which military activity takes place.

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Stanford University Press

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0804768099

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9780804768092

Send No Regrets

By: Risa Kirk

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Send No Regrets

By: Risa Kirk

Send No Regrets by Risa Kirk released on Dec 25, 1990 is available now for purchase.

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Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Superromance 90s

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0373704410

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9780373704415

The Dog from Rodeo Drive

By: Anne Hampson,Risa Kirk

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The Dog from Rodeo Drive

By: Anne Hampson,Risa Kirk

The Dog From Rodeo Drive by Risa Kirk released on Nov 24, 1993 is available now for purchase.

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0373705794

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9780373705795

Playing with Fire

By: Risa Kirk

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Playing with Fire

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Playing With Fire by Risa Kirk released on Apr 24, 1989 is available now for purchase.

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0373703619

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Tempting Fate

By: Risa Kirk

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Tempting Fate

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Tempting Fate by Risa Kirk released on Oct 24, 1986 is available now for purchase.

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0373702388

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9780373702381

Undercover Affair

By: Risa Kirk

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Undercover Affair

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Undercover Affair by Risa Kirk released on Apr 24, 1990 is available now for purchase.

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0373704089

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Made to Order

By: Risa Kirk

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Made to Order

By: Risa Kirk

Made To Order by Risa Kirk released on Sep 24, 1991 is available now for purchase.

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Beyond Compare

By: Risa Kirk

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Beyond Compare

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Beyond Compare by Risa Kirk released on Dec 25, 1985 is available now for purchase.

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0373702000

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9780373702008

Playing with Fire

By: Risa Kirk

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Playing With Fire by Risa Kirk released on Apr 24, 1989 is available now for purchase.

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Worth the Wait

By: Risa Kirk

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Worth the Wait

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Worth The Wait by Risa Kirk released on Feb 22, 1993 is available now for purchase.

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Book's by Risa Kirk

Shaping Strategy

Shaping Strategy

Worth the Wait

Worth the Wait

The Lost Promise of Civil Rights

The Lost Promise of Civil Rights

Creating Military Power

Creating Military Power

Send No Regrets

Send No Regrets

The Dog from Rodeo Drive

The Dog from Rodeo Drive

Playing with Fire

Playing with Fire

Tempting Fate

Tempting Fate

Undercover Affair

Undercover Affair

Made to Order

Made to Order

Beyond Compare

Beyond Compare

Playing with Fire

Playing with Fire

Worth the Wait

Worth the Wait

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