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Overview"""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. """ Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mirjam Grandia MantasPublisher: Leiden University Press Imprint: Leiden University Press ISBN: 9789087283643ISBN 10: 9087283644 Pages: 294 Publication Date: 04 March 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents 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 IndexReviewsThe book offers a fresh and illuminating interpretation of how, by whom, and when decisions were made in the Netherlands and United Kingdom as they sought to take part in the NATO operation in Afghanistan. The analysis is original and shows convincingly that the practice had little relationship to the theory upon which political and military processes for the use of armed force are structured. -- General Sir Rupert Smith In this book, Mantas proposes a radical and subversive thesis. She shows that the Dutch and British decision to deploy to the NATO mission in southern Afghanistan in 2006 was not made independently by the respective governments of these countries, as might be expected. Rather, both countries were mutually committed to the operation by their transnational military interconnections and obligations. The book represents a major contribution not just to understanding NATO's campaign in Afghanistan but strategy in the twenty-first century. -- Anthony King, University of Warwick In this book, Mantas proposes a radical and subversive thesis. She shows that the Dutch and British decision to deploy to the NATO mission in southern Afghanistan in 2006 was not made independently by the respective governments of these countries, as might be expected. Rather, both countries were mutually committed to the operation by their transnational military interconnections and obligations. The book represents a major contribution not just to understanding NATO's campaign in Afghanistan but strategy in the twenty-first century. --Anthony King, University of Warwick The book offers a fresh and illuminating interpretation of how, by whom, and when decisions were made in the Netherlands and United Kingdom as they sought to take part in the NATO operation in Afghanistan. The analysis is original and shows convincingly that the practice had little relationship to the theory upon which political and military processes for the use of armed force are structured. --General Sir Rupert Smith Author InformationDr (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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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