A sense of the enemy : the high stakes history of reading your rival's mind /

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"More than two thousand years ago the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu advised us to know our enemies. The question has always been how. In A Sense of the Enemy, the historian Zachary Shore demonstrates that leaders can best understand an opponent not simply from his pattern of past behavior, but fro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shore, Zachary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Political leadership > Psychological aspects.
Heads of state > Psychology.
Enemies > Psychology.
Psychology, Military.
Chefs d'État > Psychologie.
Ennemis > Psychologie.
Psychologie militaire.
HISTORY > Military > Strategy.
HISTORY > Modern > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Enemies > Psychology
Heads of state > Psychology
Political leadership > Psychological aspects
Psychology, Military
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction: Seeking Strategic Empathy; 1. The Conscience of an Empire: Gandhi and the British Character; 2. Arming Your Enemy: Stresemann's Maneuver, Act I; 3. Steady on the Tightrope: Stresemann's Maneuver, Act II; 4. Stalin the Simulator: The Problem of Projected Rationality; 5. A Rendezvous With Evil: How Roosevelt Read Hitler; 6. Hanoi's New Foe: Le Duan Prepares for America; 7. Counting Bodies: The Benefits of Escalation; 8. The Continuity Conundrum: When the Past Misleads; 9. Number Worship: The Quant's Prediction Problem; Conclusion.
  • Afterword: Fitting In: Some Thoughts on Scholarship, Sources, and MethodsAcknowledgments; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

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