Deploying Ourselves: Islamist Violence, Globalization, and the Responsible Projection of U.S. Force

by Westbrook,David A.

• ISBN13: 9781594517433
• ISBN10: 1594517436
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A noted theorist of globalization offers a complete reconstruction of our national security institutions and strategies to better match today's realities. David A. Westbrook shows how 'œdeploying ourselves'-as statesmen and -women, as citizens can better achieve U.S. national security. Westbrook explains why today's national security establishment is outdated, entrenched in a model of defense befitting the post-World War II Cold War era. Today, without military peers, the U.S. must re-create its institutions around wielding influence globally, based on the cooperation of other states and groups. Westbrook explores radical (including Jihadist) challenges, the 'œlong war' on terror, and other current topics to show how defense institutions could be reconceived in order to become both more responsible and more effective. His measures include a wholesale revision of the National Security Act of 1947 to radically reform intelligence work by reintegrating it into democratically responsible military and diplomatic bureaucracies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction
Looking Outward: Military Force as Political Speech	p. 3
Looking Inward: National Interests vs. Bureaucratic Objectives	p. 13
Overview of the Argument	p. 22
Aspects of Engagement
Naming the Enemy	p. 33
Political Subjects	p. 43
Politics Is Now	p. 51
The Modernism of Radical Neofundamentalism	p. 62
All Politics Is Spatial	p. 73
The Challenge of Radical Neofundamentalism
Bin Laden's Challenge	p. 85
Ideological Abstraction and Concrete Presence	p. 97
Peacetime Contests	p. 104
Wartime Contests	p. 114
Institutional Reform
New World Security	p. 127
The Department of Foreign Affairs	p. 132
The Department of Military Operations	p. 140
The Reintegration of Intelligence	p. 151
Conclusion
Against Thucydides	p. 171
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 189
Index	p. 201
About the Author	p. 210
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