Research Catalog

Title

US national security : policymakers, processes, and politics / Sam C. Sarkesian, John Allen Williams, and Stephen J. Cimbala.

Author

Sarkesian, Sam C. (Sam Charles), 1927-2011

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, c2013.

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Additional Authors

• Williams, John Allen, 1945-
• Cimbala, Stephen J.

Description

xii, 348 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

U.S. national security

Subject

• National security > United States > Decision making
• United States > Decision making

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-328) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

National interests and national security -- The national security context -- Who's who in the international system -- The conflict spectrum -- National security, nuclear weapons, and arms control -- The US political system -- The national security establishment -- The President and the presidency -- The policy triad and the National Security Council -- The military establishment -- The intelligence establishment -- The national security policy process -- The policy process -- The President and Congress -- Empowering the people -- Civil-military relations -- Looking toward the future -- Long-range issues of national security -- Making the system work -- For further reading.

ISBN

• 9781588268563 (alk. paper)
• 158826856X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012020828

OCLC

794838414

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library