ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses ways to assess the performance of agents that according to one observer are strange bedfellows', to another are working apart together' and to four other observers are entangled in a marriage of reason'. This marriage of reason' is usually referred to as civil-military cooperation. The services that agents from both categories traditionally provide are described as "non productive" and a drain on the "wealth-producing" part of the economy in developing countries'. In this setting, actors from different civilian institutions, humanitarian organizations as well as military actors from different countries ideally work side by side joint and combined'. Civil-Military cooperation takes place between partners who differ materially from each other. This chapter develops a research agenda for performance measurement of civil-military cooperation. The chapter examines civil-military cooperation and its various forms. Civil-Military cooperation concerns the post-disaster or post-conflict stage of stabilizing and reconstructing core institutions and processes of an area.
