Proconsuls: Delegated Political-Military Leadership from Rome to America Today - Softcover

Lord, Carnes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521254698 ISBN 13: 9780521254694

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The first systematic analysis of American proconsular leadership from the Spanish-American War to the present.

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About the Author

Carnes Lord is Professor of Military and Naval Strategy in the Center for Naval Warfare Studies, United States Naval War College. As a political scientist, his interests lie in international and strategic studies, national security organization and management, and political philosophy. Lord holds PhD degrees from Cornell University and Yale University and has taught political science at Yale University, the University of Virginia and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He has held several senior positions in the United States government, including director of international communications and information policy on the National Security Council staff (1981–4), assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs (1989–91) and distinguished fellow at the National Defense University (1991–3). Lord is the author, among other works, of The Presidency and the Management of National Security (1988), The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now (2003) and Losing Hearts and Minds? Strategic Influence and Public Diplomacy in the Age of Terror (2006).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521254698
• ISBN 13: 9780521254694
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254