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Strategy and history : essays on theory and practice
Comprises a selection of Professor Gray's key contributions to strategic debate. Each essay in this book is about strategy in the modern world, and reflects the many dimensions of this complex subject. Covering a range of subjects and historical events, it is of interest to students and analysts of strategy and international studies.
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- 0415386349
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- xii, 234 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Cass series--strategy and history, 15.
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- [POL-SSS-55]
Strategy and capability : sustaining organizational change
Modern managers and students of management are inundated with advice on how to change organizations in order to improve effectiveness. This book makes sense of all this competing advice, considering the best ways for organizations to develop their strategic capabilities in a fast-changing world.
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- 0631228454
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- xv, 201 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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- Management, organizations, and business series
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- [POL-SSS-54]
Strategic studies : a reader
Presenting essays on strategic theory, this reader guides students through the theoretical and practical aspects of Strategic Studies. It provides a survey of the ideas and themes in the field of Strategic Studies. It is suitable for students of strategic studies, international security and modern warfare, and for professional military students.
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- 9780415772211
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- ix, 450 p. ; 26 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-53]
Strategic security management : a risk assessment guide for decision makers
Supports data driven security that is measurable, quantifiable and practical. This book provides a perspective on the risk assessment process. It explores the process of security analysis for decision making. It covers metric-based security resource allocation of countermeasures, including security procedures, personnel, and electronic measures.
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- 9780123708977
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 389 p.) : ill.
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- [POL-SSS-52]
Strategic rivalries in world politics : position, space and conflict escalation
"International conflict is neither random nor inexplicable. It is highly structured by antagonisms between a relatively small set of states that regard each other as rivals. Examining the 173 strategic rivalries in operation throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book identifies the differences rivalries make in the probability of conflict escalation and analyzes how they inter…
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- 9780521881340
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- xiv, 314 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-51]
Strategic basing and the great powers, 1200-2000
This is the first book to survey the evolution of the strategic basing systems of the great powers, covering an 800-year span of history, from the Mongol dynasty to the era of the US empire. Robert E. Harkavy details the progression of strategic basing systems and power projection, from its beginnings at a regional level to its current global reach, while emphasizing the interplay between po…
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- 0415701767
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- xi, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- Cass series--strategy and history, 24.
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- [POL-SSS-49]
Security first : for a muscular, moral foreign policy
What should American policies be toward liberated countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, or rogue states like North Korea and Iran? What must be done to protect America from nuclear terrorism? The author asserts that providing basic security must be the first priority in all foreign policy considerations, even ahead of efforts to democratize.
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- 9780300108576
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 308 p.)
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- [POL-SSS-48]
Security studies : an introduction
Gives students an overview of the major theoretical approaches, key themes and significant issues within security studies. This book explores the main theoretical approaches used within the field from realism to international political sociology. It explains the concepts underpinning contemporary debates from the security dilemma to terrorism.
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- 0415425611
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- xxiv, 552 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-47]
Security strategy and transatlantic relations
Tackles key questions such as: how much do security strategies signal convergence or divergence in US and EU foreign and security policy doctrine? What tangible political and policy impacts can be attributed to security strategies? What are the implications for US and EU policies towards specific regions?
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 0415401909
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- xii, 262 p. ; 24 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-46]
Security communities
The contributors to this study argue that community can exist at the international level within the field of security. They suggest that security politics is profoundly shaped by a need to forge community links both contemporaneously and historically.
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- 0521630517
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- xiii, 462 p. ; 23 cm.
- Series Title
- Cambridge studies in international relations, 62
- Call Number
- [POL-SSS-44]
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