Strategy And Politics

Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134697991

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This book examines the subject of strategy and its relationship with politics. Despite the fact that strategy is always the product of political process, the relationship between the two concepts and their ancillary activities has scarcely been touched by scholars. This book corrects that serious deficiency, and explains the high relevance of political factors for matters of general defence. Each chapter aims to show how and why strategy and politics interact and how this interaction has had significant consequences historically. Neither strategy nor politics can make sense if considered alone. Strategy requires direction that can only be provided by political process, while politics cannot be implemented without strategy. In summary, this volume will explain: what strategy is (and is not) why strategy is essential what strategy does and how it does it how strategy is made and executed Written by a leading scholar and former practitioner, this book will be essential reading for all students of military strategy, strategic studies, security studies and war and conflict studies.

Author : Emerson Niou,Peter C. Ordeshook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317563112

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Strategy and Politics by Emerson Niou,Peter C. Ordeshook Pdf

Strategy and Politics: An Introduction to Game Theory is designed to introduce students with no background in formal theory to the application of game theory to modeling political processes. This accessible text covers the essential aspects of game theory while keeping the reader constantly in touch with why political science as a whole would benefit from considering this method. Examining the very phenomena that power political machineries—elections, legislative and committee processes, and international conflict, the book attempts to answer fundamental questions about their nature and function in a clear, accessible manner. Included at the end of each chapter is a set of exercises designed to allow students to practice the construction and analysis of political models. Although the text assumes only an elementary-level training in algebra, students who complete a course around this text will be equipped to read nearly all of the professional literature that makes use of game theoretic analysis.

Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134697922

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Strategy and Politics by Colin S. Gray Pdf

This book examines the subject of strategy and its relationship with politics. Despite the fact that strategy is always the product of political process, the relationship between the two concepts and their ancillary activities has scarcely been touched by scholars. This book corrects that serious deficiency, and explains the high relevance of political factors for matters of general defence. Each chapter aims to show how and why strategy and politics interact and how this interaction has had significant consequences historically. Neither strategy nor politics can make sense if considered alone. Strategy requires direction that can only be provided by political process, while politics cannot be implemented without strategy. In summary, this volume will explain: what strategy is (and is not) why strategy is essential what strategy does and how it does it how strategy is made and executed Written by a leading scholar and former practitioner, this book will be essential reading for all students of military strategy, strategic studies, security studies and war and conflict studies.

Author : Peter Trubowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : 0691149577

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Politics and Strategy by Peter Trubowitz Pdf

Trubowitz pushes the understanding of grand strategy beyond traditional approaches that stress only international forces or domestic interests. He provides insights into how past leaders responded to cross-pressures between geopolitics and party politics, and how similar issues continue to bedevil American statecraft today. He suggests that the trade-offs shaping American leaders' foreign policy choices are not unique--analogous trade-offs confront Chinese and Russian leaders as well."--Pub. desc.

Author : Laure Paquette
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1590334140

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Political Strategy and Tactics by Laure Paquette Pdf

This book aims to bridge a broadly applicable and validated theory and the practical challenges that face any individual acting in the face of a power imbalance. It underpins the practical advice with a detailed sociology of action of the phenomenon known as strategy. The only thing required to use this strategy is some capacity for abstract thought for planning a strategy and some self-awareness and discipline for implementing it. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the possibilities available to the strategist, and provides a simple method of developing a strategy.

Author : Jan-Erik Johanson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030034399

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Strategy Formation and Policy Making in Government by Jan-Erik Johanson Pdf

This book explores goal-oriented action and describes the variety of options offered by strategic management in guiding public organisations. The book is based on the idea that planning is only one option in orienting the functioning of public organisations and applies resource-based and network studies to the public sector. Whilst most of the existing literature on strategic management relates to local government, this book examines developments within central governments and public agencies external to government hierarchies. The book also addresses the strategic distinction between politics and administration often neglected by existing research, and illustrates the connection between goal setting and actual performance of government organisations.

Author : Ian C. MacMillan,Patricia E. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:39000000980180

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Strategy Formulation by Ian C. MacMillan,Patricia E. Jones Pdf

Author : Edward N. Luttwak
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1412835275

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Strategy and Politics by Edward N. Luttwak Pdf

Author : Sven Biscop
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529217506

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Grand Strategy in 10 Words by Sven Biscop Pdf

This book introduces ten key terms for analysing grand strategy and shows how the world’s great powers – the United States, China, Russia and the European Union (EU) – shape their strategic decisions today and shows how the choices made will determine the course of world politics in the first half of the 21st century.

Author : Nicholas J. Spykman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351532082

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America's Strategy in World Politics by Nicholas J. Spykman Pdf

Less than a year after the United States entered the Second World War, Nicholas Spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power. In America's Strategy in World Politics, Spykman examined world politics from a realist geopolitical perspective. The United States, he explained, was fighting for its very survival as an independent country because the conquests of Germany and Japan raised the specter of our geopolitical encirclement by hostile forces controlling the power centers of Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. Spykman warned that the United States could not safely retreat to a defensive position in the Western Hemisphere. Spykman looked beyond the immediate strategic requirements of the Second World War, envisioning a postwar world in which the United States would help shape the global balance of power to meet its security needs. Even though Soviet Russia was our wartime ally, Spykman recognized that a geopolitically unbalanced Soviet Union could threaten to upset the postwar balance of power and thereby endanger U.S. security. Spykman also foresaw the rise of China in postwar Asia, and the likely need for the United States to ally itself with Japan to balance China's power. He also recognized that the Middle East would play a pivotal role in the postwar world. Spykman influenced American postwar statesmen and strategists. During the Cold War, the U.S. sought to deny the Soviet Union political control of Western Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. Spykman's geopolitical vision of U.S. security, supported by a balanced Eurasian land mass, coupled with his focus on power as the governing force in international relations, makes America's Strategy in World Politics relevant to the twenty-first century.

Author : Risa Brooks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691188287

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Shaping Strategy by Risa Brooks Pdf

Good strategic assessment does not guarantee success in international relations, but bad strategic assessment dramatically increases the risk of disastrous failure. The most glaring example of this reality is playing out in Iraq today. But what explains why states and their leaders are sometimes so good at strategic assessment--and why they are sometimes so bad at it? Part of the explanation has to do with a state's civil-military relations. In Shaping Strategy, Risa Brooks develops a novel theory of how states' civil-military relations affect strategic assessment during international conflicts. And her conclusions have broad practical importance: to anticipate when states are prone to strategic failure abroad, we must look at how civil-military relations affect the analysis of those strategies at home. Drawing insights from both international relations and comparative politics, Shaping Strategy shows that good strategic assessment depends on civil-military relations that encourage an easy exchange of information and a rigorous analysis of a state's own relative capabilities and strategic environment. Among the diverse case studies the book illuminates, Brooks explains why strategic assessment in Egypt was so poor under Gamal Abdel Nasser prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and why it improved under Anwar Sadat. The book also offers a new perspective on the devastating failure of U.S. planning for the second Iraq war. Brooks argues that this failure, far from being unique, is an example of an assessment pathology to which states commonly succumb.

Author : John Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Politics and war
ISBN : 1350934208

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Military Strategy by John Stone Pdf

This is an introductory guide to the relationship between politics, strategy and war. This is an introductory guide to strategy in the modern world. Military strategy can be understood as the process by which armed force is converted into intended political effects. As such, it constitutes one of the most important activities of the past two centuries. Nevertheless, strategy is an activity that remains little understood, and one that has rarely realized the hopes that have so frequently been invested in it. This book seeks to explain why this is the case through an engagement with strategic th.

Author : Thomas Fischer (M.A.),Gregor Peter Schmitz,Michael Seberich
Publisher : Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015073952452

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The Strategy of Politics by Thomas Fischer (M.A.),Gregor Peter Schmitz,Michael Seberich Pdf

Politicians often talk about "strategy." What do they mean by this term? Where does the development of political strategies take place? Who is involved in strategic processes? Which methods are used? The attempt to answer these questions, leads to an interesting look behind the scenes of the political arena. At the basis of this exploration are interviews with ministers, members of strategy units, party politicians, academics and journalists from Denmark, Germany, Great Britain and the United States, that have been conducted by four research teams. Their analyses document a common understanding of strategy in the political realm of the four countries. They also show how the meaning of strategy is shaped by the political system and the political culture of a country.

Author : Harry R. Yarger
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Military doctrine
ISBN : 9781428916227

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Strategic Theory for the 21st Century: The Little Book on Big Strategy by Harry R. Yarger Pdf

Author : John M. de Figueiredo,Michael Lenox,Felix Oberholzer-Gee,Richard G. Vanden Bergh
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786350190

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Strategy Beyond Markets by John M. de Figueiredo,Michael Lenox,Felix Oberholzer-Gee,Richard G. Vanden Bergh Pdf

Strategy Beyond Markets is organized around three themes: Public Politics, Private Politics, and Integrated Political Strategy. The book explores the way these strategies influence political environments, firms and corporations.