Creating Military Power

Risa A. Brooks is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. Elizabeth A. Stanley is Assistant Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and in the Department of Government at Georgetown University.

"This book's sensible premise is that a state's military power—often measured by gross national product, industrial capacity, population size, number of troops, and arsenal—does not necessarily determine military effectiveness... [Creating Military Power] is an excellent set of essays that specialists on military-security issues will read with much profit."—CHOICE "Rigorous social science too often treats military power as the epiphenomenon of economic or technological resources. This impressive volume helps rectify that common mistake. It explores and details how what really matters—the actual effectiveness of militaries—depends on complex social, political, diplomatic, and organizational underpinnings."—Richard K. Betts,Director, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University "Creating Military Power is creative and rigorous, attentive to historical detail, and concerned with policy implications. It will undoubtedly be read with great enthusiasm by specialists on international security in both the academy and think tanks."—Ronald R. Krebs, University of Minnesota "Comprising a conceptual framework, seven substantive chapters, a critical individual synthesis reflecting on the book itself and a summary conclusion, this edited book provides a set of constructive conceptual and empirical contributions to international relations, political science, and military studies."—H-Net

• Contents Contributors Acknowledgments 1.Introduction: The Impact of Culture, Society, Institutions, and International Forces on Military Effectiveness1 Risa A. Brooks 2.Nationalism and Military Effectiveness: Post-Meiji Japan000 Dan Reiter 3.Social Structure, Ethnicity, and Military Effectiveness: Iraq, 1980\-2004000 Timothy D. Hoyt 4.Political Institutions and Military Effectiveness: Contemporary United States and United Kingdom000 Deboroah Avant 5.Civil-Military Relations and Military Effectiveness: Egypt in the 1967 and 1973 Wars 000 Risa A. Brooks 6.Global Norms and Military Effectiveness: The Army in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland 000 Theo Farrell 7.International Competition and Military Effectiveness: Naval Air Power, 1919\-1945000 Emily O. Goldman 8.International Alliances and Military Effectiveness: Fighting Alongside Allies and Partners 000 Nora Bensahel 9.Explaining Military Outcomes000 Stephen Biddle 10.Conclusion000 Risa A. Brooks Index000