Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States by Karlin, Mara E.
Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States by Karlin, Mara E.

Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States

Combining rigorous academic scholarship with the experience of a senior Pentagon policymaker, Mara E. Karlin explores the...
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Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States by Karlin, Mara E.

Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States

CHF 150.74
Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States by Karlin, Mara E.

Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States

CHF 150.74
Author: Mara E. Karlin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Combining rigorous academic scholarship with the experience of a senior Pentagon policymaker, Mara E. Karlin explores the key national security issue of our time: how to effectively build partner militaries. Given the complex and complicated global security environment, declining U.S. defense budgets, and an increasingly connected (and often unstable) world, the United States has an ever-deepening interest in strengthening fragile states. Particularly since World War II, it has often chosen to do so by strengthening partner militaries. It will continue to do so, Karlin predicts, given U.S. sensitivity to casualties, a constrained fiscal environment, the nature of modern nationalism, increasing transnational security threats, the proliferation of fragile states, and limits on U.S. public support for military interventions. However, its record of success is thin.

While most analyses of these programs focus on training and equipment, Building Militaries in Fragile States argues that this approach is misguided. Instead, given the nature of a fragile state, Karlin homes in on the outsized roles played by two key actors: the U.S. military and unhelpful external actors. With a rich comparative case-study approach that spans Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, Karlin unearths provocative findings that suggest the traditional way of working with foreign militaries needs to be rethought. Benefiting from the practical eye of an experienced national security official, her results-based exploration suggests new and meaningful findings for building partner militaries in fragile states.

Author: Mara E. Karlin
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 01/19/2018
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780812249262


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About the Author
Mara E. Karlin teaches strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Previously she served as a senior policymaker at the Pentagon, leading long-term defense strategy, building the future U.S. military, and formulating key national security policies, particularly focused on the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.
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