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A Responsible Congress: The Politics of National Security

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by Alton Frye.

Existing explanations of national security policy are overwhelmingly structuralist in
orientation. They are thus blind to, and even shunt aside, the politics of national security.
This chapter brings politics back in via the often-ignored, yet crucial, process of
mobilization and its constituent processes, notably legitimation and coalition
management. Drawing on existing rationalist and constructivist scholarship, it explores
the techniques and tools that politicians employ to fix the contours of debate, construct
the policy menu, legitimate chosen policy, and forge and sustain supportive elite
coalitions. In keeping with this Handbook’s focus on the future, the chapter also examines
how three contemporary developments—the rise of the transnational, the information and
communications revolution, and the fragmentation of authority and community—are
complicating mobilization, and, from this vantage point, it briefly advances the case for a
policy rooted in pragmatism.

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Series Title

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Call Number

328.73 FRY a

Publisher

United States of America : Published for The Council on Foreign Relations [by] McGraw-Hill., 1975

Collation

xii, 238 hlm.; ilus.; 24 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0070226008 :

Classification

328.73

Content Type

text

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Carrier Type

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Edition

First edition.

Subject(s)

United States
The Politics of National Security

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Alton Frye,

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