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Thomas Schelling and the nuclear age : strategy as social science
This book provides an insight into the work of Thomas Schelling, one of the most influential strategic thinkers of the nuclear age. By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the United States' early forays into Vietnam, he had become one of the most distinctive voices in Western strategy. This book shows how Schelling's thinking is much more than a reaction to the tensions of the Cold War. In…
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- 0714655163
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- 1 online resource (xi, 235 p.)
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- Cass series--strategy and history, 10.
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- [POL-SSS-58]
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 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 and strategy in the new Europe
The thawing of the Cold War has brought new concerns over the nature of European security to the fore and uncovered major differences in the approaches of individual states to changed circumstances. This book clarifies the options for a new European security order and contribute to the growing debate. It adopts a medium-term analytical approach and uses a three-tier format, covering the nature…
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- 0415071208
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- xv, 250 p. ; 23 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-41]
Science, strategy and war : the strategic theory of John Boyd
By highlighting diverse sources that shaped Boyd?s thinking, and by offering a comprehensive overview of his work, this volume demonstrates that the common interpretation of the meaning of Boyd?s OODA loop concept is incomplete.
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- 0415371031
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- 1 online resource (x, 313 p.) : ill.
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- Cass series--strategy and history, 18.
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- [POL-SSS-37]
Making twenty-first-century strategy : an introduction to modern national sec…
"This new work defines national security strategy, its objectives, the problems it confronts, and the influences that constrain and facilitate its development and implementation in a post-Cold War, post-9/11 environment. The authors note that making and implementing national strategy centers on risk management and present a model for assessing strategic risks and the process for allocating limi…
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- 1585661600
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 268 p.)
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- Making 21st century strategy : Introduction to modern national security processes and problems
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- [POL-SSS-33]
Making strategy work : leading effective execution and change
Offers a comprehensive process model for making strategy work in the real world. This book shows why execution is even more important than many senior executives realize, and describes why businesses fail to deliver on even their most promising strategies.
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- 013146745X
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- xxi, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-32]
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