Shaping Strategy - Couverture souple

Brooks, Risa

 
9780691136684: Shaping Strategy
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0691136688 ISBN 13 : 9780691136684
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Risa Brooks is assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691136688
ISBN 13 
9780691136684
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
326
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0691129800 ISBN 13 :  9780691129808
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2008
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