National Security Advisor
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler "In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Profiles of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents They Served--From JFK to George W. Bush," (Simon & Schuster, 2009).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler "In the Shadow of the Oval Office: The Next National Security Adviser," (Foreign Affairs, January-February 2009, pp. 114-29).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler “Toolbox: Advice for the Advisor,” (The American Interest, January-February 2009).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler "A Job That Matters: What the President's National Security Adviser Must Do," (Public Policy: Advice to the New Administration, October 2008, pp. 6-7).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler, "How National Security Advisers See Their Role," (pp. 185-97 in Eugene R. Wittkopf and James M. McCormick, eds., The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy, 5th edition, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., August 2007).
I.M. (Mac) Destler, "The President's Man," (The National Interest, p. 37-39, January/February, 2007).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler, "More Than a Few Campaign Stops: How Rice Has Redefined the Role of National Security Adviser," (Center for American Progress website, 22 October 2004).
Organizing the NSC
Ivo Daalder, David Gunter, I.M. (Mac) Destler, James M. Lindsay, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Peter R. Orszag, and James B. Steinberg, "Protecting the American Homeland: One Year On," (Brookings Institution, 2003).
David Gunter, I. M. Destler, Ivo H. Daalder, James B. Steinberg and Michael E. O'Hanlon, Protecting the American Homeland, (Brookings Institution Press, 2002).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler, "A New NSC for a New Administration," (Brookings Institution, November 2000).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler, "How Operational and Visible an NSC", (Brookings Institution, 23 February 2001).
I.M. (Mac) Destler, The National Economic Council: A Work In Progress (Institute for International Economics, U.S., November 1996).
I.M. (Mac) Destler, "The National Security Council: Basic Options," (paper prepared for the Presidential Transition Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies, July 1988).
I.M. (Mac) Destler, "The Presidency and National Security Organization," (pp. 226-42 in Norman A. Graebner, ed., The National Security: Its Theory and Practice, 1945-1960, Oxford University Press, 1986).
I.M. (Mac) Destler, "The Power Brokers: An Uneven History of the National Security Council," (review of David Rothkopf, Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power, in Foreign Affairs, September/October, 2005).
Homeland Security Council
I.M. (Mac) Destler, "Will Reorganization Make Americans Safer?" (Paper for Colloquium on Border Control and Homeland Security, Rutgers University at Newark, 23 April 2003).
Ivo Daalder, I.M. (Mac) Destler, James M. Lindsay, Paul C. Light, Robert E. Litan, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Peter R. Orszag, and James B. Steinberg, Assessing the Department of Homeland Security, (Brookings Institution, July 2002).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler, “Enhancing Homeland Security: Organizational Options,” (Brookings Institution Website, July 2002).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler, “Congress is Left with the Hard Task of Shaping Homeland Security,” (San Jose Mercury News, 23 July 2002).
Ivo Daalder, I.M. (Mac) Destler, and James B. Steinberg, “Greater Focus Needed in Homeland Agency,” (Newsday, 18 July 2002).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler, “Behind America’s Front Lines: Organizing to Protect the Homeland,” (Brookings Institution, Summer 2002).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler, “Plan to Shield Nation Needs Help,” (Newsday,
12 June 2002).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler, “Advisors, Czars, and Councils: Organizing for Homeland Security,” (National Interest, 1 June 2002).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler, “Reorganize Effort to Secure Homeland,” (The Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2002).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler, "The First Line of Ridge's Defense," (The Washington Times, 20 March 2002).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler, “How NOT to Reorganize for Homeland Security,” (The Hill, 7 November 2001).
George W. Bush
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler, “Reagan’s Greatest Failure Holds a Lesson for Bush," (Financial Times, 10 June 2004).
Ivo Daalder and I.M. (Mac) Destler, “Promise and Problems: President Bush’s Homeland Security Department,” (The Century Foundation, June 2002).
Publications on the National Security Council prior the start of the NSC Project
I.M. (Mac) Destler, "Managing the Washington Foreign Policy Process: Options for a New Administration," (pp.111-21 in David H. Popper, ed., Adapting American Diplomacy to the Demands of the 1990s, The American Academy of Diplomacy, 1989).
I.M. (Mac) Destler, "Reagan and the World: An 'Awesome Stubbornness,'" (pp. 241-61 in Charles O. Jones, ed., The Reagan Legacy: Promise and Performance, Chatham, N.J.: Chatham House, 1988).
I.M. (Mac) Destler, "The Presidency: The Autonomy Problem,"(essay prepared for publication by Project '87, American Political Science Association and American Historical Association, July 1988).
I.M. (Mac) Destler, "Staffing the White House for Foreign Policy," (pp. 31-49 in Kenneth W. Thompson, ed., Discourse on Policy-Making: American Foreign Policy, University Press of America, 1987).
I.M. (Mac) Destler, "The Evolution of Reagan Foreign Policy," (pp. 117-58 in Fred I. Greenstein, ed., The Reagan Presidency: An Early Assessment, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983).
I.M. (Mac) Destler, "National Security: The Rise of the Assistant," (pp. 263-85 in Hugh Heclo and Lester M. Salamon, eds., The Illusion of Presidential Government, Westview Press for the National Academy of Public Administration, 1981; and Political Science Quarterly, pp. 573-88, Winter 1980-81).
I.M. (Mac) Destler, "National Security Advice to U.S. Presidents: Some Lessons from Thirty Years," (World Politics, pp. 143-76, January 1977).
I.M. (Mac) Destler, Presidents, Bureaucrats, and Foreign Policy: The Politics of Organizational Reform, (Princeton University Press, 1972 and 1974).
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