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Theoretical considerations -- Issues and debates in transitional rule / Karen Guttieri and Jessica Piombo -- Knocking on heaven's door: meeting social expectations in post-conflic transitions / Antonio Donini -- Interim governments and the construction of political elites / Carrie Manning -- Executive power-sharing systems: conflict management or confict escalation? / Donald Rothchild -- Must they go through Hobbes? The revolutionary provisional government model and political challenge in externally imposed regimes / Andrew J. Enterline and J. Michael Greig -- Case studies -- Multiple translations and interim governance in El Salvador and Guatamale / William D. Stanley -- Inchoate opposition, divided incumbents: muddling toward democracy in Indonesia, 1998-99 / Michael S. Malley -- Transitional governance in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Devon Curtis -- Interim government in Liberia: peace building toward the status quo / E. Philip Morgan -- International interim governments, democratization, and post-conflict peace building: lessons from Cambodia and East Timor / Aurel Croissant -- State building before statehood: Kosovo's evolution from an interim polity to "Conditional Independence" / Lenard J. Cohen -- Interim notions of statehood in Bosnia-Herzegovina: a permanent transition? / Mark Baskin -- Afghanistan's post-Taliban transition: state building after war / Thomas H. Johnston -- Is this any way to run an occupation? legitimacy, governance, and security in post-conflict Iraq / Christina Caan, Beth Cole, Paul Hughes, and Daniel P. Serwer -- Conclusions -- Conclusions and policy implications: yes, it makes a difference / Daniel P. Serwer

The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/sta.dc ; Civilian and military participants in relief and stability operations rely upon Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to collect, analyze, store, display, and share information that is critical for these civil-military interactions. This article investigates ICT innovation in these operations over time. As researchers in the sociology of technology school might predict, ICT innovation for relief and stability operations emerges in a distributed fashion, within clusters of specialty expertise that migrate across interconnected technology systems and across humanitarian and military activities. Major events such as natural disasters have punctuated the development of ICT for civil-military interactions, often driving community learning and coherence. Among the many stakeholders in the United States, the federal government in particular has played an important role in shaping the ICT ecosystem through policies and engagements. Government policies and changes in the field of action in the 1990s created imperatives for the US military in particular to collaborate with civilian agencies on ICT innovation. Civil-military information sharing gaps persist today due, in part, to institutional factors.

Civil Power in Irregular Conflict, Section 1, Chapter 3, pp. 51-56, January 12, 2010 ; International statesmen and scholars have for some years now focused on a domestic political question: who rules when the fighting stops? The mechanics of authority transitions—ostensibly an internal sovereign concern—have become an international preoccupation. Practitioners from outside war-torn societies broker constitutional arrangements, provide military and police to sustain order and enforce laws, and fashion aid programs in order to move transitions forward. These practitioners by and large operate according to a state-centric paradigm, even while violating its rules. ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Executive Seminar in Defense Decision-Making, June 2004 ; Purpose: To understand the motivation and conduct of civilian and military participants in international peacekeeping.

Civil-military relations are vital to the coherence and effectiveness of post-conflict peacebuilding, but have often been problematic. This article argues that civil-military issues vary systematically in relation to the particular civil and military actors in peacebuilding, and that the coercive content of the external military's mission creates special challenges in each of these sets of relationships. Given the significance of the military footprint, the article presents trade-offs for policymakers intending to use military forces to make peace.

This article appeared in Strategic Insights (August 2003), v.2 no.8 ; America's post-9/11 obsession with securing the homeland shifted the domestic political landscape, including American civil-military relations. The American model of civil-military relations has been characterized by a contract according to which the military defends the nation's borders while domestic police keep order at home. On September 11, in the words of DoD Transformation czar Arthur K. Cebrowski, America's contract with the Department of Defense was torn up and a new contract is being written. This Strategic Insight describes some of the forces compelling military changes in the historical context of US civil-military relations. Although the military itself may resist change, institution-building (outside and within that organization) and attitudinal changes in response to massive terrorist attacks at home cannot but alter American civil-military relations. Much of the shift in American politics since 9/11 has to do with the nature and requirements of homeland security: it is both public and private, interagency (involving a number of government elements) and civil-military. Implementing the new national security strategy will require cooperation across sectors of activity and jurisdictions of authority. The quality of America's civil-military relations will be a factor in the effectiveness of America's war on terror, while by the same token, the conduct of the war will irrevocably shape those relations. Given the US military lead in homeland defense, civilian control of the military should be a topic of particular interest to anyone concerned with the function of democracy in wartime.

This article appeared in Strategic Insights, July 1, 2002 ; The current American discourse on prospective war with Iraq includes open discussion of military occupation to an uncommon degree. American strategic discourse typically focuses on war fighting and tends to be much less concerned about post-conflict peace building. Wide-spread belief that war with Iraq is a foregone conclusion may account for the unusual willingness of policymakers to discuss what comes after. Or perhaps Americans have come to appreciate the difficulties of post-conflict peace building in the Balkans and elsewhere. Iraq is rich is resources and human resourcefulness and--here is a good start--Iraq is already a nation. Still, occupying a nation America has defeated twice and made to suffer through years of sanctions, situated in the midst of a region seething with anti-Americanism, is a problem. This document addresses a number of questions: In a post-Saddam Iraq, will the United States provide that tyranny? Will the people of Iraq be slow to take up arms and unable to agree amongst and govern themselves? And, if occupation is to become liberation, i.e., democratization, how do we get there? In addressing these questions, the author makes the following basic arguments: 1) this war will be unlike the previous war America fought with Iraq; 2) despite optimistic talk of a quick draw-down, it is prudent to expect a large military footprint into the post-conflict period; and 3) the Bush administration has declared an ambitious agenda but has yet to demonstrate a commitment to apply the necessary means to achieve that goal.

Civilian and military participants in relief and stability operations rely upon Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to collect, analyze, store, display, and share information that is critical for these civil-military interactions. This article investigates ICT innovation in these operations over time. As researchers in the sociology of technology school might predict, ICT innovation for relief and stability operations emerges in a distributed fashion, within clusters of specialty expertise that migrate across interconnected technology systems and across humanitarian and military activities. Major events such as natural disasters have punctuated the development of ICT for civil-military interactions, often driving community learning and coherence. Among the many stakeholders in the United States, the federal government in particular has played an important role in shaping the ICT ecosystem through policies and engagements. Government policies and changes in the field of action in the 1990s created imperatives for the US military in particular to collaborate with civilian agencies on ICT innovation. Civil-military information sharing gaps persist today due, in part, to institutional factors.

This article appeared in Strategic Insights, v.5, issue 1 (January 2006) ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

This article appeared in Strategic Insights, v.5, issue 1 (January 2006) ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.