Institutional response to terrorism : the domestic role of the military in consolidated democracies
dc.contributor.advisor | Barany, Zoltan D. | |
dc.creator | Bean, Jennifer Michelle | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-07T15:24:58Z | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-11T22:46:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-03-07T15:24:58Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-11T22:46:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-12 | en |
dc.description | text | en |
dc.description.abstract | Terrorism, as an act of war, has produced new challenges for states and their militaries in the modern era. A typical response for governments that face a terrorist threat is to reassess their institutional posture toward handling such assaults on their territorial sovereignty, to include a redefinition of the conditions under which their militaries may be used to defend and protect domestic interests. This study aims to determine the conditions under which and to what degree a civilian authority's restructuring of its counterterrorism policy alters civil-military relations within that state, specifically examining the institutional and constitutional constraints under which governments formulate their military's role in counterterrorism policy; the type of institutional arrangement that seems most conducive to a powerful military role in a state's counterterrorism policy; and an exploration of the expansion of military authority in response to terrorism in the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, and Spain. I argue that democratic states will expand the role and responsibilities of their militaries into what were formerly civilian areas of responsibility as a key tool in the implementation of their counterterrorism policy when military authority is only loosely circumscribed by state constitutional and legislative documents; the military has a history of strong participation in the formulation (versus simply implementation) of a state's national security doctrine; and the military maintains an exalted role in national history and is viewed by the citizenry as a core institution of national identity, and the government is facing both high internal and external threat levels. This study is based on the assumption that institutional arrangements play a significant role in the policymaking process, employing the paradigm of Historical Institutionalism to explain how changes within institutions alter civil-military relations in the context of counterterrorism policy, and vice versa. | en |
dc.description.department | Government | en |
dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/23443 | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.rights | Copyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works. | en |
dc.subject | Counterterrorism policy | en |
dc.subject | Civil-military relations | en |
dc.subject | Military authority | en |
dc.title | Institutional response to terrorism : the domestic role of the military in consolidated democracies | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |