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Bringing together experts from across the globe to provide a comprehensive introduction to strategic studies, this is the only overview to critically engage with both enduring and contemporary issues that dominate strategy. Throughout the chapters, readers are encouraged to explore key debates and alternative perspectives. A debates feature considers key controversies and presents opposing arguments, helping students to build critical thinking skills and reflect upon a wide range of perspectives.
The new edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the latest developments in the field of strategic studies. Four new chapters feature in-depth coverage of cyber power and conflict, strategic culture, the evolution of grand strategy in China, and the relationship between military technology and warfare.
1:Introduction: Strategy in the Contemporary World, John Baylis, James J. Wirtz, and Jeannie L. Johnson
Part I: Enduring Issues of Strategy
2:The History of the Practice of Strategy from Antiquity to Napoleon, Beatrice Heuser
3:The Evolution of Modern Warfare, Michael Sheehan
4:Strategic Theory, Thomas G. Mahnken
5:The Causes of War, John Garnett and John Baylis
6:Strategic Culture, Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky
7:Law, Politics, and the Use of Force, Justin Morris
8:Technology and Warfare, Ryan Grauer
9:Intelligence and Strategy, Roger Z. George
10:Geography and Strategy, Daniel Moran
Part II: Contemporary Problems
11:Irregular Warfare: Terrorism and Insurgency, James D. Kiras
12:Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-first Century, C. Dale Walton
13:The Control of Weapons of Mass Destruction, John Baylis
14:Conventional Power and Contemporary Warfare, John Ferris
15:Humanitarian Intervention and Peace Operations, Sheena Chestnut Greitens
16:Cyber Conflict in the Age of Great Power Competition, Ryan C. Maness, Rebecca Lorentz, and Brandon Valeriano
17:Geopolitics and Grand Strategy, Stephanie Ortmann and Nicholas Whittaker
18:Chinese Grand Strategy, Oriana Skylar Mastro
Part III: The Future of Strategy
19:Strategic Studies: The West and the Rest, Amitav Acharya and Jiajie He
20:Strategic Studies and its Critics, Columba Peoples
21:A New Agenda for Security and Strategy?, James J. Wirtz
22:The Practice of Strategy, Colin S. Gray and Jeannie L. Johnson
23:Does Strategic Studies Have a Future?, Sir Lawrence Freedman
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Bringing together experts from across the globe to provide a comprehensive introduction to strategic studies, this is the only overview to critically engage with both enduring and contemporary issues that dominate strategy. Throughout the chapters, readers are encouraged to explore key debates and alternative perspectives. A debates feature considers key controversies and presents opposing arguments, helping students to build critical thinking skills and reflect upon a wide range of perspectives.
The new edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the latest developments in the field of strategic studies. Four new chapters feature in-depth coverage of cyber power and conflict, strategic culture, the evolution of grand strategy in China, and the relationship between military technology and warfare.