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The risk society at war : terror, technology and strategy in the twenty-first century /
In the globalised world of the twenty-first century, security policy in Western societies is driven by a wish to prevent future threats from becoming reality. Applying theories of 'risk society' to the study of strategy, this book analyses the creation of a new approach to strategy. The au...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the globalised world of the twenty-first century, security policy in Western societies is driven by a wish to prevent future threats from becoming reality. Applying theories of 'risk society' to the study of strategy, this book analyses the creation of a new approach to strategy. The author demonstrates that this approach creates new choices for policy-makers and challenges well-established truths within the study of security and strategy. He argues that since the seventeenth century the concept of strategy has served to rationalise new technologies, doctrines and agents. By outlining the history of the concept of strategy in terms of rationality, Rasmussen presents a framework for studying strategy in a time of risk and uses this framework to analyse how new technologies of war, pre-emptive doctrines, globalisation and the rise of the 'terrorist approach to warfare' can formulate a new theory of strategy. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511260873 9780511261442 0511261446 0511259654 9780511259654 9780511260872 9780511320125 0511320124 9780511491634 0511491638 |
| Acceso: | University staff and students only. Requires University Computer Account login off-campus. |