The Bureaucracy of Intervention: Deploying the Canadian Armed Forces

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This book advances the contemporary Civil-Military literature, focusing on Canadian military deployments and the role of the public service. The author focuses on the implementation stage of three recent post-Afghanistan deployments and one non-deployment, asking why Cabinet varies in deploying the armed forces and explaining how the federal bureaucracy defines and shapes military commitments. Mike G. Fejes is Assistant Professor at The Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston. "This book sheds light on several key questions: Why do states vary in deploying their armed forces, and how does Canada deploy its military? Drawing on a wealth of experience, interviews, and theories, Fejes highlights how federal departments influenced recent military deployments, and shows the importance of looking beyond Cabinet to understand how the public service shapes Canada’s military missions. The Bureaucracy of Intervention should be required reading for students, scholars, and practitioners of Canadian defence policy.”  -Philippe Lagassé, Associate Professor and Barton Chair, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Ottawa "Comparing recent military deployments, Fejes makes an important contribution to Canadian defence policy.  Asking why deployments often small and late, he argues that players in the federal bureaucracy can stymie decision-making towards their own interests.  Consequently, Fejes’s book is a must read to understand Canadian civil-military relations and Canada’s foreign policy decision-making process." -Stephen M. Saideman, Paterson Chair in International Affairs, Director Canadian Defence and Security Network, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Ottawa "This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the whole-of-government decision-making process surrounding military deployments in Canada. Each chapter uncovers the complex interplay between key bureaucratic actors, leading to a decision to send our military into harm’s way, or not. Fejes points out that each actor brings its own interests and perspectives, explaining why decisions take so long, and how deployments take shape. Based on extensive interviews, this book is essential reading for Canadian students of foreign and defence policy." - Vincent Rigby, former National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister 

This book advances the contemporary intervention literature by focusing on Canadian Armed Forces deployments and the role of the public service. The author focuses on three recent post-Afghanistan deployments, including Iraq, Ukraine, Mali, and one non-deployment to Colombia, seeking to explain why the Canadian government varies in deploying the armed forces abroad, specifically the time required to announce a deployment and the deployment’s composition/size. The book seeks to examine the civil-military relationship in Canada and highlight aspects of the principal-agent relationship by focusing on how the federal bureaucracy defines and shapes military commitments. These four case studies look past the implementation stage of the decision-making process to explain how federal bureaucracies impact policy through agenda setting and policy formulation, specifically in regards to the use of armed force abroad.

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“The Bureaucracy of Intervention sheds important light on several key questions: Why do states vary in how they deploy their armed forces, and specifically how does Canada deploys its military overseas? Drawing on a wealth of experience, interviews, and theories of bureaucratic politics, Fejes highlights how various federal departments influenced post-Afghanistan deployments of the Canadian Armed Forces. The book shows the importance of looking beyond the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and parliamentary debates, to understand how the Department of National Defence, Global Affairs Canada, the Privy Council Office, and the Treasury Board Secretariat shape and influence Canada’s military missions. The Bureaucracy of Intervention should be required reading for all students, scholars, and practitioners of Canadian defence policy.” (Philippe Lagassé, Associate Professor and Barton Chair, Norman Paterson School of International Affair, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)

“Michael Fejes makes an important contribution to Canadian defence policy as his work systematically compares Canada’s military deployments.  Asking why are Canadian military deployments often small and late?  His answer is that some players in the Canadian bureaucracy, including the Canadian Armed Forces, can stymie decision-making towards their own interests.  Consequently, Fejes’s book is a must read for those seeking to understand Canadian civil-military relations and Canada’s foreign policy decision-making process.” (Stephen M. Saideman, Paterson Chair in International Affairs, Director Canadian Defence and Security Network, Norman Paterson School of International Affair, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)

“This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the whole of government decision-making process surrounding the deployment of the Canadian Armed Forces overseas. Looking at four recent deployment decisions — Iraq, Ukraine, Mali and Columbia — each chapter uncovers the complex interplay between key bureaucratic actors, leading up to a government decision to send our military into harm’s way, or not.  Fejes points out that each of these players brings to bear its own interests and perspectives, helping to explain why decisions often take so long, and why deployments take the shape they do. Based on extensive interviews with current and former practitioners, this book is essential reading for any student of foreign and defence policy in Canada.” (Vincent Rigby,  former National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister and Slater Family Professor of Practice at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University)

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