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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. In the professional language of military servicemen, security analysts and decision-makers, "caveats" refers to the reservations on the use of force states put on their military contingents as a precondition to participate in particular multinational enforcement operations. Such understood caveats are an instrument of statecraft and foreign policy. However, caveats also are a potential threat to the integrity and military effectiveness of the coalition force in question, and, further down the road, an erosion on the fabric of security alliances. This volume is ideal for audiences interested in military and defence studies, security studies and coalition warfare.

Coping with Caveats in Coalition Warfare: An Empirical Research Program

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