Strategy in the Contemporary World

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

John Baylis is Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations and a former Pro-Vice Chancellor at Swansea University. Prior to that he was Professor of International Politics and Dean of Social Sciences at Aberystwyth University. He has published more than 20 books and over a hundred chapters and articles. His books include The Makers of Nuclear Strategy, with John Garnett (Pinter, 1991); The Globalization of World Politics, with Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (8th edn, Oxford University Press, 2020); An Introduction to Global Politics, with Steven Lamy, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens (4th edn, Oxford University Press, 2016); and The British Nuclear Experience: The Role of Beliefs, Culture and Identity, with Kristan Stoddart (Oxford University Press, 2015). He has a BA, MSc (Econ), PhD, and DLitt from Swansea and Aberystwyth Universities.

James J. Wirtz is a Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He is the author of Understanding Intelligence Failure (Routledge, 2017). Along with Loch Johnson, he is the editor of Intelligence: The Secret World of Spies (5th edn, Oxford University Press, 2019). He received his PhD from Columbia University.

Jeannie L. Johnson is the Founding Director of the Center for Anticipatory Intelligence at Utah State University and an Associate Professor in the Political Science department. She is the author of The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture: Lessons Learned and Lost in America's Wars (Georgetown University Press, 2018) and the co-editor of Crossing Nuclear Thresholds: Leveraging Socio-Cultural Insights into Nuclear Decisionmaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Dr Johnson previously worked for the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence and the US State Department. She received her doctorate from the University of Reading in 2013.