Congress and the Politics of National Security - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521187265 ISBN 13: 9780521187268

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

In an increasingly complex and unpredictable world, a growing number of observers and practitioners have called for a re-examination of our national security system. Central to any such reform effort is an evaluation of Congress. Is Congress adequately organized to deal with national security issues in an integrated and coordinated manner? How have developments in Congress over the past few decades, such as heightened partisanship, message politics, party-committee relationships and bicameral relations, affected topical security issues? This volume examines variation in the ways Congress has engaged federal agencies overseeing our nation's national security as well as various domestic political determinants of security policy.

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In an increasingly complex and unpredictable world, a growing number of observers and practitioners have called for a re-examination of our national security system. This volume examines variation in the ways Congress has engaged federal agencies overseeing our nation's national security and also various domestic political determinants of security policy.

About the Author

David P. Auerswald is Professor of Security Studies at the National War College. Before coming to the National War College, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, Washington DC; served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, working for then-Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware; and was a staff assistant for US Senator Timothy Wirth of Colorado. He has spent time working on the congressional reform team of the Project on National Security Reform, the US Central Command's 2008–9 Assessment Team and the 2008 'Alternative Futures' project for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He is the author and co-author of Disarmed Democracies: Domestic Institutions and the Use of Force (2000) and The Kosovo Conflict: A Diplomatic History Through Documents (2000).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0521187265
• ISBN 13: 9780521187268
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Auerswald David P.