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The political practice of declaring victory and coming home has provided a false and dangerous domestic impression of great success for U.S. unilateral and multilateral interventions in failing and failed states around the world. The reality of such irresponsibility is that the root causes and the violent consequences of contemporary
intranational conflict are left to smolder and reignite at a later date with the accompanying human and physical waste. This book discusses why it is incumbent on the international community and individual powers involved in dealing with the chaos of the post-Cold War world to understand that such action requires a long-term, holistic, and strategic approach.
The intent of such an approach is to create and establish the proven internal conditions that can lead to a mandated peace and stability-with justice. The key elements that define those conditions at the strategic level include: (1) the physical establishment of order and the rule of law; (2) the isolation of belligerents; (3) the regeneration of the economy; (4) the shaping of political consent; (5) fostering peaceful conflict resolution processes; (6) achieving a complete unity of effort toward stability; and (7) establishment and maintenance of a legitimate civil society. These essential dimensions of contemporary global security and stability requirements comprise a new paradigm that will, hopefully, initiate the process of rethinking both problem and response.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction
A Multiplicity of Threats, A Paucity of Options: The Global Security Environment at the End of the 20th Century by Richard L. Millet
Defense and Offense in Peace and Stability Operations by Max Manwaring and E. G. Corr
The Essential Internal "Defensive" Conditions that Lead to Mandated Peace and Stability with JusticeThe Establishment of Order and the Rule of Law: Legitimacy in the Traditional Operations (NTOs) by Thomas K. Adams
Isolating the Belligerents: A Key to Success in the Post-Counterinsurgency Era by Anthony James Joes
Sustaining Life, Relieving Suffering, and Regenerating the Economy by Arthur E. Dewey
Moving from the "Defense" to the OffenseMilitary Intelligence and the Problem of Legitimacy: Opening the Model by Everett C. Dolman
Beyond Jointness: Civil-Military Cooperation in Achieving the Desired End-State by John T. Fishel
A Grand National Security Strategy for Legitimate Governance and Crises Prevention by Robert M. Herrick
Legitimate Civil Society and Conflict Prevention: Let's Get Serious by Dayton L. Maxwell
Coping with Chaos in the Post-Cold War High Operational and Strategic Security EnvironmentsThe Anarchic State vs. the Community of Nations: The Real Cleavage in International Security by Michael J. Dziedzic
America Coping with Chaos at the Strategic Level: Facilitator for Democratic Stability in the Post-Counterinsurgency Era by Joseph N. McBride
Responding to the Failed State: Strategic Triage by Robert H. Dorff
Where To from Here?Some Final Thoughts by E. G. Corr and Max Manwaring
Bibliography
Index
About the author
ANTHONY JAMES JOES is Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Relations Program at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia./e He is the author or contributing editor of ten books, has published numerous articles in professional journals, and has traveled and lectured on four continents.
