Presence, Prevention, and Persuasion

Edward Rhodes is Director of the Center for Global Security and Democracy, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Jon DiCicco is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and Associate Director of the Center for Global Security and Democracy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Sarah Milburn is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Thomas Walker is Associate Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, Albany.

• Chapter 1 A Sword Half Withdrawn from the Scabbard: The Royal Navy and British "Shaping" of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant, 1816-1852 Chapter 2 Decline, Disengagement, and Shaping the Periphery: Great Britain in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant, 1919-1937 Chapter 3 A Shadow Cast from Afar: The Royal Navy in South America, 1850-1900 Chapter 4 The U.S. Navy in the Caribbean, 1903-1920 Chapter 5 La Chasse Gardee: Post-World War II French West Africa, 1945-1970 Chapter 6 Toujours la Chasse Gardee? French Power and Influence in Late 20th Century Francophone Central Africa, 1970-1995 Chapter 7 Conclusions

Military power is meant to achieve a political outcome. This book proposes the basic conditions necessary to answer the question: how can the presence of military force shape a peacetime political environment? Experts study six cases, and Professor Rhodes draws their conclusions together in a brilliant and most instructive set of propositions that carry profound implications for American policy-makers and will be of great value to all students of political and military affairs.