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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.
- Series Title
- 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
- Collation
- 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]
Learning to think strategically
Presents an account of the relationship between strategic thinking and the learning process involved taking learning from the academic to the everyday. This book is a primer on how successful strategists learn to think strategically. It traces the history of strategy, differentiates strategic thinking from planning.
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- 9780750678797
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- xxi, 285 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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- New frontiers in learning.
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- [POL-SSS-31]
Images of strategy
Images of Strategy develops an innovative and multi-faceted approach to strategic management which will enable students to use and develop interesting and wide-ranging applications alongside some of the latest ideas and analysis. It does so by asking if we really are looking in at the same static object when we look at strategy and suggesting approaches to strategy as fluid and complex. Images …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 0631226095
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- viii, 450 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-28]
Global instability and strategic crisis
The author seeks to bring new perspectives to current debates and argues that control of the missile threats cannot be achieved without addressing ecological, economic, social and cultural elements in a stable world order.
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- 041530413X
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- xix, 318 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- Routledge advances in international relations and politics, 26.
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- [POL-SSS-25]
From resource allocation to strategy
Drawing on the work of leading experts in strategy, this collection provides a clear understanding of what strategy is and how it affects organizations. The work combines some of the latest thinking on resource allocation, with models designed for actually building the systems.
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- 0199277443
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- xvii, 482 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-23]
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