Us National Security Reform: Reassessing The National Security Act Of 1947 (Routledge Global Security Studies)

Introduction : how should we think about national security reform? / Heidi B. Demarest -- The durable national security act / Richard K. Betts -- Improving strategic assessment in the executive branch : lessons from the scholarly literature / Risa A. Brooks -- Bent but not broken? : inter-branch politics, checks and balances, and the contemporary national security state / Douglas L. Kriner -- Contradictions in U.S. security planning for a global environment and a process approach to solving them / Deborah Avant -- What have we learned about how presidents organize for national security decision making, 1947-2017 / Meena Bose -- Toward a smaller White House national security staff : a look at the present in historical perspective / I.M. (Mac) Destler -- How we decide what we need : planning the future force / David S.C. Chu, with the assistance of Allison F. Taylor -- Global challenges and American grand strategy for the 21st century / Walter Russell Mead -- Security challenges in the post-unipolar era / Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr -- Global challenges, U.S. national security strategy, and defense organization / Thomas G. Mahnken -- The diffusion of power and the organization of the U.S. national security establishment / Barry R. Posen -- Conclusion / Erica D. Borghard -- Afterword : national security reform for a new era : an agenda for policymakers

• | Author: Heidi Brockmann Demarest, Erica D. Borghard
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jul 04, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 212 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0815399588
• | ISBN-13: 9780815399582