Strategy and Ethnic Conflict
Strategy and Ethnic Conflict

Author: Laure Paquette

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2002-02-28

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 0313010943

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Ethnic conflict now presents the thorniest problems for military and civilian strategists of all stripes. This book presents a new general theory of strategy, encompassing studies of the relationship between values, interest, and strategy as these relate to ethnic conflicts. It focuses on the relationship between values and strategy, building a theory on the hypothesis that national values influence national strategy. Paquette's research reveals that national values influence national strategy through three mechanisms: cognition, appreciation, and evaluation. Each mechanism, and indeed the whole value-focused approach to strategic thinking, is described using a network of interrelated statements. Paquette develops a methodology specific to the issues of international security and ethnic considerations. She tests this theory extensively for internal consistency before applying it to a single historical case: French decision-making on national strategy between 1955 and 1970; however, because of its generality, this same theory could easily be applied to other cases. As with any theory, it is possible to vary successively or simultaneously assumptions or conditions and to derive new predictions. This process of deriving variations has the potential to help in the training of strategists, both military and civilian.

Foreign Policy and Discourse Analysis
Foreign Policy and Discourse Analysis

Author: Henrik Larsen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-11-30

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1134722362

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Henrik Larsen presents discourse analysis as an alternative approach to foreign policy analysis. Through an extensive empirical study of British and French policies towards Europe in the 1980s, he demonstrates the importance of political discourse in shaping foreign policy. The author discusses key theoretical problems within traditional belief system approaches and proposes an alternative one: political discourse analysis. The theory is illustrated through detailed analyses of British and French discourses on Europe, nation/state security and the nature of international relations.

The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited
The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited

Author: Daniel R. Brunstetter

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2018-01-10

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1626165084

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How do we frame decisions to use or abstain from military force? Who should do the killing? Do we need new paradigms to guide the use of force? And what does “victory” mean in contemporary conflict? In many ways, these are timeless questions. But they should be revisited in light of changing circumstances in the twenty-first century. The post–Cold War, post-9/11 world is one of contested and fragmented sovereignty: contested because the norm of territorial integrity has shed some of its absolute nature, fragmented because some states do not control all of their territory and cannot defeat violent groups operating within their borders. Humanitarian intervention, preventive war, and just war are all framing mechanisms aimed at convincing domestic and international audiences to go to war—or not, as well as to decide who is justified in legally and ethically killing. The international group of scholars assembled in this book critically examine these frameworks to ask if they are flawed, and if so, how they can be improved. Finally, the volume contemplates what all the killing and dying is for if victory ultimately proves elusive.

The Evolution of Strategy
The Evolution of Strategy

Author: Beatrice Heuser

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-10-14

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 113949256X

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Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Beatrice Heuser explores the evolution of strategic thought, the social institutions, norms and patterns of behaviour within which it operates, the policies that guide it and the cultures that influence it. Ranging across technology and warfare, total warfare and small wars as well as land, sea, air and nuclear warfare, she demonstrates that warfare and strategic thinking have fluctuated wildly in their aims, intensity, limitations and excesses over the past two millennia.

The Academic World in the Era of the Great War
The Academic World in the Era of the Great War

Author: Marie-Eve Chagnon

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1349952664

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This book examines the ways in which scholarly expertise was mobilized during the First World War, and the consequences of this for the inter-connected academic world that had developed in the late nineteenth century. Adopting a strong international approach, the contributors to this volume examine the impact of the War on individuals, institutions, and disciplines, cumulatively demonstrating the strong afterlife of conflict for scholarly practices and academic communities across Europe and North America, in the decades following the cessation of the Great War.

A Dominant Strategy of E : A Golden King
A Dominant Strategy of E : A Golden King

Author: Amanda Howell

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2023-11-02

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13:

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The Flight of A King : The Strategy, The Skill, The War, The Kill, The Models, The Justice for One Brave Woman to try and take on the bias effigy of his estranged partner, the dog Marmaduke, Selma’s re engagement and the truth of vulnerability Written in Classical Stanza for Full Production, Witty, Cool and very very comprehensively written for awards in the future...the characters are introduced in the first book and developed forwards into the second very very cleverly written as Cantona plays himself, some of the characters and they are funny.... Written for the Royal Family in Sandringham and a favourite of Prince Harry not Prince George

Central African Republic
Central African Republic

Author: International Monetary Fund. African Dept.

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 1484313690

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This paper discusses Central African Republic’s Second Review Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) Arrangement. Program implementation as of end-2016 has been broadly satisfactory despite the challenging security situation. All quantitative performance criteria were met while two structural benchmarks were missed. The authorities have adopted strong measures to address customs revenue shortfalls that took place during the first quarter of 2017 and to enhance budget transparency. All three prior actions for the second review were met. The IMF staff supports completion of the second review under the ECF arrangement and the authorities’ request for augmentation of access.