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Guided Tour of Learning Features | p. xiv |
Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre | p. xvi |
Acknowledgements | p. xviii |
List of Contributors | p. xix |
Preface to the Second Edition | p. xxii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
What is Strategic Studies? | p. 4 |
Strategic Studies and the Classical Realist Tradition | p. 7 |
What Criticisms are made of Strategic Studies? | p. 9 |
What is the Relationship between Strategic Studies and Security Studies? | p. 12 |
Further Reading | p. 14 |
Enduring Issues of Strategy | p. 17 |
The Causes of War and the Conditions of Peace | p. 19 |
Introduction | p. 20 |
The Study of War | p. 21 |
Human Nature Explanations of War | p. 28 |
Wars 'Within' and 'Beyond' States | p. 35 |
Conclusion | p. 38 |
Questions | p. 39 |
Further Reading | p. 40 |
The Evolution of Modern Warfare | p. 42 |
The Napoleonic Legacy | p. 43 |
The Industrialization of War | p. 48 |
Naval Warfare | p. 51 |
Total War | p. 54 |
Nuclear Weapons and Revolutionary Warfare | p. 59 |
Postmodern War | p. 61 |
Questions | p. 63 |
Further Reading | p. 64 |
Web Links | p. 65 |
Strategic Theory | p. 66 |
Introduction | p. 67 |
The Logic of Strategy | p. 68 |
Clausewitz's On War | p. 71 |
Sun Tzu's Art of War | p. 76 |
The Enduring Relevance of Strategy | p. 78 |
Conclusion | p. 80 |
Questions | p. 80 |
Further Reading | p. 80 |
Web Links | p. 81 |
Strategic Culture | p. 82 |
Introduction | p. 83 |
Thinking about Culture and Security | p. 83 |
Political Culture | p. 84 |
Strategic Culture and Nuclear Deterrence | p. 85 |
Sources of Strategic Culture | p. 86 |
Constructivism and Strategic Culture | p. 89 |
Continuing Issues and Future Questions | p. 92 |
Conclusion | p. 98 |
Questions | p. 99 |
Web Links | p. 99 |
Law, Politics, and the Use of Force | p. 101 |
The Efficacy of International Law | p. 102 |
Why States Obey the Law | p. 104 |
International Law and the Use of Force | p. 108 |
Jus ad Bellum | p. 111 |
Jus in Bello | p. 115 |
Conclusion | p. 119 |
Questions | p. 119 |
Further Reading | p. 120 |
Web Links | p. 121 |
Geography and Strategy | p. 122 |
Introduction: The Lay of the Land | p. 123 |
Land Warfare: The Quest for Victory | p. 124 |
Maritime Strategy | p. 129 |
Airpower | p. 132 |
The Final Frontier: Space War | p. 136 |
War by Other Means: Cyberspace | p. 138 |
Questions | p. 139 |
Further Reading | p. 140 |
Technology and Warfare | p. 141 |
Technophiles and Technophobes | p. 142 |
Some Ways of Thinking about Military Technology | p. 142 |
Mapping Military Technology | p. 146 |
The Revolution in Military Affairs Debate | p. 148 |
Challenges of the New Technology | p. 155 |
The Future of Military Technology | p. 157 |
Questions | p. 158 |
Further Reading | p. 159 |
Contemporary Problems | p. 161 |
Irregular Warfare: Terrorism and Insurgency | p. 163 |
Introduction | p. 164 |
Definitions | p. 164 |
Subverting the System | p. 167 |
Protecting the System | p. 176 |
Bringing the System Down or Thriving on its Margins? | p. 183 |
Technology | p. 185 |
Conclusion | p. 186 |
Questions | p. 187 |
Further Reading | p. 188 |
Web Links | p. 190 |
Strategy for a New World: Combating Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime | p. 192 |
Introduction | p. 193 |
The Evolution and Nature of the Threat | p. 194 |
Strategies to Combat Organized Crime and Terrorism | p. 202 |
Combating Terrorist Networks | p. 203 |
Conclusions | p. 206 |
Questions | p. 207 |
Further Reading | p. 208 |
Web Links | p. 208 |
The Second Nuclear Age: Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-first Century | p. 209 |
Introduction | p. 210 |
The First Nuclear Age | p. 211 |
Risks in the Second Nuclear Age | p. 214 |
Adapting to the Second Nuclear Age | p. 220 |
Conclusion | p. 225 |
Questions | p. 226 |
Further Reading | p. 227 |
Web Links | p. 227 |
The Control of Weapons of Mass Destruction | p. 228 |
Introduction | p. 229 |
Arms Control during the Cold War | p. 230 |
Arms Control and the 'Long Peace' | p. 233 |
The Residual Role of Arms Control in the Post-Cold War Era | p. 236 |
Post-Cold War WMD Proliferation: Strategic Responses | p. 239 |
Strategic Response in Operation | p. 243 |
Analysis and Assessment | p. 247 |
Conclusions | p. 248 |
Questions | p. 250 |
Further Reading | p. 250 |
Web Links | p. 252 |
Conventional Power and Contemporary Warfare | p. 253 |
Power and War: A History | p. 254 |
New World Orders: 1945, 1989, 2001 | p. 256 |
Power and Hyperpower | p. 258 |
Military Affairs: Revolution and Counter-Revolution | p. 260 |
Arts of War | p. 263 |
Military Balances | p. 265 |
War, What is it good for? | p. 268 |
Questions | p. 271 |
Further Reading | p. 271 |
Web Links | p. 272 |
Iraq, Afghanistan, and American Military Transformation | p. 274 |
Introduction | p. 275 |
Afghanistan and the Transformation Thesis | p. 276 |
Iraq and the Transformation Thesis | p. 282 |
An Alternative View | p. 287 |
Conclusion | p. 291 |
Questions | p. 292 |
Further Reading | p. 293 |
Web Links | p. 294 |
Homeland Security: A New Strategic Paradigm | p. 295 |
Introduction | p. 296 |
A New Threat? | p. 296 |
Communications and the Frequency of Terror | p. 299 |
What Should Preparations Look Like: Dealing with the Small-N Problem | p. 301 |
What is the United States Preparing for? | p. 303 |
Conclusions | p. 309 |
Questions | p. 311 |
Further Reading | p. 311 |
Web Links | p. 312 |
Humanitarian Intervention and Peace Operations | p. 313 |
Introduction | p. 314 |
From Peacekeeping to Peace Operations | p. 315 |
Intervention Failures | p. 318 |
The Politics of Humanitarian Intervention | p. 322 |
The Military Character of Peace Operations | p. 326 |
Conclusion: Problems and Prospects | p. 330 |
Questions | p. 332 |
Further Reading | p. 333 |
Web Links | p. 334 |
The Future of Strategy | p. 335 |
A New Agenda for Security and Strategy? | p. 337 |
Introduction | p. 338 |
The Need for a Conceptual Framework | p. 339 |
Population: The Demographics of Global Politics | p. 341 |
Commons Issues | p. 343 |
Direct Environmental Damage | p. 346 |
Disease | p. 348 |
Sensitivity and Vulnerability | p. 352 |
Conclusion | p. 353 |
Questions | p. 354 |
Further Reading | p. 354 |
Web Links | p. 355 |
The Future of Strategic Studies | p. 356 |
The Development of Strategic Studies | p. 357 |
In and Out of the Cold War | p. 358 |
The Academic and Policy Worlds | p. 360 |
The Study of Strategy | p. 363 |
Realism: Old and New | p. 365 |
The Study of Armed Force | p. 366 |
Conclusion | p. 368 |
Questions | p. 369 |
Further Reading | p. 369 |
Notes | p. 371 |
References | p. 373 |
Index | p. 385 |
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