عنوان

The Running of the Bears:

شماره

TLpq2520963558

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Running of the Bears:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Koenig, Mitchell

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

When Contractors Obstruct U.S. Foreign Policy

نام ساير پديدآوران

Mislan, David

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

American University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2021

نام خاص و کميت اثر

160

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

M.A.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

American University

امتياز متن

2021

متن يادداشت

Why do firms obstruct the policy goals of the nation that employs them? For nations like the United States that rely on the private sector for their every function, a policy's success or failure can hinge on a firm-in the case of Iraqi reconstruction after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Blackwater, a private security company, was one such firm. Scholars such as P.W. Singer, Sean McFate, and James Pattison, as well as politicians, Dwight Eisenhower foremost among them, have argued that the military-industrial complex and specifically private security companies pose an inherent danger to nations that contract with these firms. Instead, this thesis holds a more generalizable position that Blackwater's obstruction to the U.S. mission to rebuild Iraq can be understood using organization theory. This study examines Blackwater's organizational behavior, organizational culture, and its principal-agent relationship with the United States to explain how Blackwater routinely set back the U.S. mission through use of force incidents against civilians, culminating in the Nisour Square massacre on September 16, 2007, after which Blackwater dramatically softened its posture. Organization theory provides an answer which explains both Blackwater's impeding of the reconstruction effort from 2004-2007 and its subsequent change in behavior. The primary benefits of this organization theory explanation are twofold: it provides a more compelling answer because it can account for the variation in Blackwater's impact on the U.S. mission before and after the Nisour Square shootings, and its logic can be applied to any firm that contracts with the U.S. government, not just private security companies.

موضوع مستند نشده

International relations

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Koenig, Mitchell

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Mislan, David

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y