Awards

• Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2013
• Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2017
• Winner of Outstanding Academic Title 2017

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Taw's tightly argued analysis should be of interest to all readers...highly recommended. * Choice * Well-researched and well-written.... A job well done. * Marine Corps History *

From CORDS in Viet Nam to CERP in Iraq, Jennifer Taw adeptly illustrates through strategy, policy, and doctrine why stability operations are a key function for the U.S. military. Her conclusions are profound both for the military and foreign policy writ large. -- Derek Reveron, author of Exporting Security, and professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College.

From CORDS in Viet Nam to CERP in Iraq, Jennifer Taw adeptly illustrates through strategy, policy, and doctrine why stability operations are a key function for the U.S. military. Her conclusions are profound both for the military and foreign policy writ large. -- Derek Reveron, author of Exporting Security, and professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding not just how stability operations became a central mission of the U.S. military in recent years, but the serious potential consequences of this development. Taw persuasively shows that it came about through a combination of historical circumstance, a changing strategic environment, domestic organizational politics, and, most worryingly, the creeping securitization of instability. This is an excellent contribution to a critical debate about American foreign policy in the twenty-first century, and it concludes with an urgent and thoughtful warning that American strategists and policy makers would be wise to heed. -- Celeste Ward Gventer, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Stability Operations Capabilities Jennifer Taw's groundbreaking survey on the 'securitization of instability' and the 'militarization of foreign policy' couldn't have come at a more important time in U.S. history. The national security community is emerging from the wrenching Iraq-Afghanistan epoch. It needs clear-eyed analysis like Dr. Taw's to rationally reorder national priorities and rebalance the instruments of national power. The challenge for U.S. leaders going forward is to secure and institutionalize the past decade's most important innovations in the areas of stability operations and irregular war fighting as a strategic hedge against future challenges, while re-invigorating the latent power of routine diplomacy and development. Dr. Taw captures this challenge perfectly. -- Mr. Nathan Freier, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies

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Jennifer Morrison Taw is associate professor at Claremont McKenna College, teaching international relations, security studies, and U.S. foreign policy. She worked for ten years as a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, where she focused on counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, and peacekeeping.

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