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…

Strategy and the social sciences : issues in defence policy

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ISBN/ISSN

0714631574

Collation

1 online resource (100 p.)

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Call Number

[POL-SSS-56]

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.

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.

Strategic studies : a reader

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Strategic security management : a risk assessment guide for decision makers

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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…

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…

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.

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.