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The national security enterprise : navigating the labyrinth /

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This second edition of The National Security Enterprise provides practitioners' insights into the operation, missions and organizational cultures of the principal national security agencies and other significant institutions that shape the US national security decision-making process. Unlike so...

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Corporate Author: Georgetown University. Center for Security Studies
Other Authors: George, Roger Z., 1949- (Editor), Rishikof, Harvey (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2017]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
National security > United States.
Interagency coordination > United States.
Administrative agencies > United States.
Executive departments > United States.
Research institutes > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword to the first edition / by Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, USAF (Ret.)
  • Introduction : The national security enterprise : institutions, cultures, and politics / Roger Z. George and Harvey Rishikof
  • The inter-agency process
  • History of the inter-agency process for foreign relations in the United States : Murphy's law? / Jon J. Rosenwasser and Michael Warner
  • The evolution of the NSC process / David Auerswald
  • The Office of Management and Budget : the president's policy tool / Gordon Adams, Rodney Bent, and Kathy Peroff
  • Key policy players
  • The State Department : culture as interagency destiny? / Marc Grossman
  • The U.S. Agency for International Development : more operator than policymaker / Desaix Myers
  • The Office of the Secretary of Defense / Franklin C. Miller and Joseph McMillan
  • The military : forging a joint warrior culture / Michael J. Meese and Isaiah Wilson III
  • The Department of the Treasury / Dina Temple-Raston and Harvey Rishikof
  • Intelligence and law enforcement
  • Office of the Director of National Intelligence / Thomas Fingar
  • Central Intelligence Agency : the president's own / Roger Z. George
  • The evolving FBI : becoming a new national security enterprise asset / Harvey Rishikof and Brittany Albaugh
  • The Department of Homeland Security : chief of coordination / Susan Ginsburg
  • The president's partners and rivals
  • Congress : the other branch / David Auerswald and Colton Campbell
  • The United States Supreme Court : the cult of the robe in the national security enterprise / Harvey Rishikof
  • The outside players
  • Lobbyists : U.S. national security and special interests / Gerald Felix Warburg
  • Think tanks : supporting cast players in the national security enterprise / Ellen Laipson
  • The media : witness to the national security enterprise / John Diamond
  • Conclusion : Navigating the labyrinth : the national security enterprise / Harvey Rishikof and Roger Z. George.