Coping with Caveats in Coalition Warfare

This book develops a framework for analysis, and a set of research strategies, to better understand the conditions and mechanisms involved in the considerable use of caveats by states contributing militarily to coalition operations.

Part I Introduction Ch. 1 Making sense of the politics of caveats Part II Conceptualizing caveats Ch. 2 Caveats - a case of what? Ch. 3 Regulation of use of force in military organization and coalition forces Ch. 4 Preparing the concept of caveats for empirical research Part III Approaching caveats Ch. 5 The epistemological function of Foreign Policy Analysis in the empirical research program Ch. 6 The essence of Foreign Policy Analysis (i): Modeling the foreign policy-making and implementing processes Ch. 7 The essence of Foreign Policy Analysis (ii): Exploiting political theory at multiple levels of analyses to explain foreign policy-making processes and outcomes Part IV Theorizing caveats Ch. 8 Alliance politics dynamics Ch. 9 Domestic and governmental politics Ch. 10 Politics of implementation Part V Researching caveats Ch. 11 Considerations and recommendations for the gathering and analyses of data Part VI Conclusions Ch. 12 Recapitulations and contributions