系列：Routledge国防研究进展
本书探讨了当代英国国防政策的制定过程，以及在其开始和不断重新制定过程中相互作用的机构、参与者和利益冲突。
本研究的重点不是国防政策的实质内容，而是参与这一过程的机构参与者。自从英国在伊拉克和阿富汗的长期、血腥和最终失败的军事介入以来，公众、议会、政府和军队对这个问题的兴趣要大得多。这项工作首先讨论了影响政策的两个背景因素。第一个问题涉及英国与美国在国防和情报事务上的“特殊关系”的影响，第二个问题涉及自1945年以来英国相对令人失望的经济表现对英国国防资金的影响。然后，文章探讨了所有关键政策参与者的作用和影响，从总理、内阁和核心执行官到国防部，以及国防部与更广泛的“白厅村”，尤其是外交部和财政部的关系。这项工作最后审查了议会、法院、政党、压力团体和公众舆论等外部政策行为者和力量日益增加的影响力。
这本书将对英国国防政策、安全研究和当代军事史的学生非常感兴趣。
Making British Defence Policy: Continuity and Change
Series: Routledge Advances in Defence Studies
This book explores the process by which defence policy is made in contemporary Britain and the institutions, actors and conflicting interests which interact in its inception and continuous reformulation.
Rather than dealing with the substance of defence policy, this study focuses upon the institutional actors involved in this process. This is a subject which has commanded far more interest from public, Parliament, government and the armed forces since the protracted, bloody and ultimately unsuccessful British military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. The work begins with a discussion of two contextual factors shaping policy. The first relates to the impact of Britain’s ‘special relationship’ with the United States over defence and intelligence matters, while the second considers the impact of Britain’s relatively disappointing economic performance upon the funding of British defence since 1945. It then goes on to explore the role and impact of all the key policy actors, from the Prime Minister, Cabinet and core executive, to the Ministry of Defence and its relations with the broader ‘Whitehall village’, and the Foreign Office and Treasury in particular. The work concludes by examining the increasing influence of external policy actors and forces, such as Parliament, the courts, political parties, pressure groups and public opinion.
This book will be of much interest to students of British defence policy, security studies, and contemporary military history.
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