On 1 June 2006, the WMDC Chairman Dr. Hans Blix presented the Commission report "Weapons of Terror" to the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York. The report contains sixty concrete proposals on how the world could be freed of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. The report was also handed over to Sweden's Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson, also president of the United Nations…
This book reveals: how the Iraq war was sold to the American public through professional P.R. strategies; lies that were told related to the Iraq war; euphemisms and jargon related to the war, e.g. "shock and awe," "Operation Iraqi Freedom," "axis of evil," "coalition of the willing," etc.; how the war on terrorism and the war on Iraq have been used as marketing hooks to sell products and polic…
“A significant addition to the field, for there are not many books specifically devoted to PGMs and still fewer that attempt to relate that technology to military and national security strategy.”—David R. Mets, author of The Long Search for a Surgical Strike: Precision Munitions and the Revolution in Military Affairs
Using innovative techniques, this book has the potential to change the way analysts weigh the impact of weapons sales.
Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policymakers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the several confrontations arising out of the A…
There is a great deal of practice, discussion, and writing about strategy, but little investigation of the processes by which strategies actually form in organisations. This book shares the results of Mintzberg's investigation into this, using case studies drawn from business and governmental organisations.
The topic of safety and security in the tourism industry is of vital importance globally. In recent years, and mainly after the 9/11 event, both academics and practitioners have started to look into crisis management issues seeking workable solutions in order to mitigate the negative impacts of safety and security incidences on the tourism industry and affected destinations. Tourism, Safety and…
Provides a look at how real organizations are formulating and implementing strategic change. This book is filled with vignettes, quotes, and real-world examples that illustrate the faster, more adaptive strategic planning processes. It is relevant for a range of business, governmental, and non-profit settings.
B. H. Liddell Hart believes that "thought working on thought is the most influential process in history. Yet, being intangible, it is less perceptible than the effects of action, and has always received far less attention than it deserves." In THE GHOST OF NAPOLEON, Liddell Hart concentrates on two of these intellections, each of which vitally affected the course of history in the last two c…
Tackling one of the most controversial policy issues of the post-September 11 world, this title argues that neither the Bush Doctrine nor customary international law is capable of adequately responding to the pressing security threats of our times.