Bibliography Category: Interagency History, Structures, and Authorities

Cordesman, Anthony. 2007. “Challenge Seven: Creating an Effective Interagency Capability to Perform National Security Missions.” Salvaging American Defense: The Challenge of Strategic Overstretch (329-364). Westport, CT: Praeger Security International. Salvaging American Defense analyzes ten specific challenges to U.S. national security within the context of the Iraq War, Afghan War, War on Terrorism, and the risk […]

Cordesman, Anthony. 2007. “Challenge Nine: Dealing with Alliances, International Cooperation, and Interoperability at the Regional and Global Levels.” Salvaging American Defense: The Challenge of Strategic Overstretch (406-433). Westport, CT: Praeger Security International. Salvaging American Defense analyzes ten specific challenges to U.S. national security within the context of the Iraq War, Afghan War, War on Terrorism, […]

Corcoran, Stephen P. Deconstructing the Tower of Babel: Conflict and Opportunity in the Interagency Process. Newport, RI: Naval War College, 2006. http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA463409&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf (accessed 29 July 2011). This thesis examines the current U.S. model for interagency cooperation and the apparent disconnect between policy and execution.

Conlan, Timothy J. and Paul L. Posner. Intergovernmental Management for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. http://www.rockinst.org/pdf/federalism/2008-intergovernmental_management_for_the_twenty-first_century_updating_theories_of_american_federalism.pdf (accessed 3 January 2013). This book defines an agenda for improving the performance of America’s intergovernmental system.

Conlan, Timothy J. From New Federalism to Devolution: Twenty-Five Years of Intergovernmental Reform. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998. This book examines intergovernmental reform from 1970 to the early 1990s.

Conlan, Timothy J. 2006. From Cooperative to Opportunistic Federalism: Reflections on the Half-Century of the Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Public Administration Review Vol. 66, no. 5: 663-679. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00631.x/pdf (accessed 26 October 2011). This article suggests that recent developments in intergovernmental relations offer some promise for building new institutions of intergovernmental analysis, more effective paradigms of intergovernmental […]

Congress. House of Representatives. Committee on Government Reform. Policing Capital Sites: Improving Coordination, Training and Equipment. 109th Cong., 2nd sess., 2006. No. 109-166. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_house_hearings&docid=f:29334.pdf (accessed 29 July 2011). This is a transcript of a House Committee on Government Reform hearing. It was entitled “Policing Capital Sites: Improving Coordination, Training, and Equipment”, and sought to examine […]

Clinton Administration’s Policy on Managing Complex Contingency Operations: Presidential Decision Directive May 1997, The. White Paper, Washington, DC, (n.d.). http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd56.htm (accessed 19 October 2011). This White Paper explains key elements of the Clinton Administration’s policy on managing complex contingency operations. This unclassified document is promulgated for use by government officials as a handy reference for […]

Civic, Melanne and Bernard Carreau. 2010. Building a Civilian Lessons Learned System. Prism Vol. 1, no. 2 (March): 133-140. http://ccoportal.org/sites/ccoportal.org/files/prism1-2.pdf (accessed 21 December 2011). This article describes the creation of a system for collecting and analyzing lessons learned by civilian agencies. Inspired by the military’s extensive lessons learned programs, the Center for Complex Operations (CCO) […]

Cho, Chung-Lae, Jun-Hyun Hong, and Deil S. Wright. From Dependency to Interdependency in Korean Intergovernmental Relations. in Evan Berman and M. Jar Moon’s Handbook of Public Administration in East Asia. New York, NY: Taylor and Francis, 2009. This is a portion of Public Administration in East Asia, which examines the inner workings of governments in […]