Suchergebnisse

1. The European Union and Security Sector Reform: current practices and challenges of implementation / Oya Dursun-Ozkanca and Antoine Vandemoortele 1 . - 2. Between knowledge and power: epistemic communities and the emergence of security sector reform in the EU security architecture / Giovanni Faleg 23 . - 3. From speeches to actions: EU involvement in the war in afghanistan through the EUPOL Afghanistan Mission Maxime / H.A. Larivé 47 . - 4. Adaptation, resistance and a (Re)turn to functionalism: the case of the Bosnian police restructuring process (2003-2008) / Antoine Vandemoortele 64 . - 5. The implementation of the EU security sector reform policies in the Democratic Republic of Congo? Arnout Justaert 81 . - 6. Security sector reform in Kosovo: the complex division of labor between the EU and other multilateral institutions in building Kosovo's police force / Oya Dursun-Ozkanca and Katy Crossley-Frolick 98 . - 7. The European Union's role in the Palestinian Territories: state-building through Security Sector Reform? Dimitris Bouris 119 . - 8. Security Sector Reform and Georgia: the European Union's challenge in the Southern Caucasus / Greg Simons 134 . - 9. Which and whose authority? EU support to security governance in Aceh / Simone Tholens 156

Founded and rooted in Enlightenment values, the United States is caught between two conflicting imperatives when it comes to war: achieving perfect security through the annihilation of threats; and a requirement to conduct itself in a liberal and humane manner. In order to reconcile these often clashing requirements, the US has often turned to its scientists and laboratories to find strategies and weapons that are both decisive and humane. In effect, a modern faith in science and technology to overcome life's problems has been utilized to create a distinctly 'American Way of Warfare'. Carvin and Williams provide a framework to understand the successes and failures of the US in the wars it has fought since the days of the early Republic through to the War on Terror. It is the first book of its kind to combine a study of technology, law and liberalism in American warfare