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Strategy in the Contemporary World
Fourth Edition
Edited by John Baylis, James J. Wirtz, and Colin S. Gray
454 pages
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5
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246x189mm
978-0-19-969478-5
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Paperback
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06 December 2012
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- Revised and updated, including coverage of key issues such as the rise of cyberpower, the changing world order, the transition from war to peace, and arms control and deterrence.
- Focuses on strategic issues and gives a comprehensive overview of security issues and contemporary debates.
- Brings together contributions from international experts, providing students with both authoritative and accessible content.
- Incorporates excellent learning features throughout, including readers' guides, key points, questions, further reading and boxes to assist student learning.
- Supported by a valuable Online Resource Centre comprising case studies, web links, and PowerPoint slides.
- Provides a significantly more comprehensive analysis of strategic studies than competing texts, ensuring instructors can utilise the text for any module in this area.
New to this edition - A new chapter looking at cyberpower as a strategic instrument and how it relates to the future of war, reflecting the growing importance of this topic in strategic studies.
- Substantial updating throughout to ensure that material is contemporary and relevant.
- More material on the changing world order, the transition from war to peace, and arms control and deterrence.
Strategy in the Contemporary World looks at the development of strategy, considering the role of military power in the contemporary world, and assessing the future of strategy in light of fast-paced technological change.
The fourth edition looks at issues from both times of war and of peace, analysing both conflicts themselves, and the on-going debates about what can be learned from them. A new chapter on cyberpower reflects growing debates about whether there has been a revolution in military affairs and the future of warfare given the phenomenal pace of innovation in electronics and
computer systems, while there is also a new focus on the strategic implications of a changing world order. The new edition also includes more material on the transition from war to peace, and looks at arms control and deterrence, considering in particular the growing tension between Iran and the West over its nuclear weapons programme.
The new edition sees substantial updating throughout, prefaced by a rewritten introduction, and provides a comprehensive and insightful collection of contributions from a team of leading experts in the field.
The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre providing additional resources for both students and lecturers.
Student resources:
Additional case studies including
the Iran-Iraq war and the 2006 war in Lebanon
Web links
Lecturer resources:
PowerPoint slidesReadership: Undergraduate and graduate students taking a course in strategy/strategic studies as part of a politics or international relations degree.
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Edited by John Baylis, Formerly Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Wales, Swansea, James J. Wirtz, Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, and Colin S. Gray, Professor of International Politics and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading John Baylis is Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations and a former Pro-Vice Chancellor at Swansea University. Prior to that he had been Professor of International Politics and Dean of Social Sciences at Aberystwyth University. He has published more than twenty books and over a
hundred chapters and articles. His books include Anglo-American Defence Relations 1939-1984 (Macmillan, 1984), Anglo-American Relations since 1939: The Enduring Alliance (Manchester University Press, 1997), Alternative Nuclear Futures: The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Post-Cold War World, with Robert O'Neill (OUP, 2000); The Makers of Nuclear Strategy, with John Garnett (Pinter,1991). The Globalization of World Politics, with Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (5th Edition, OUP, 2010); and An Introduction to Global Politics, with Steven Lamy, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (OUP, 2010). He has a BA, MSc (Econ), PhD and D.Litt., from Swansea and Aberystwyth Universities.
James J. Wirtz is the Dean of the School of International Graduate Studies, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He is the co-editor of Over The Horizon Proliferation Threats (Stanford University Press, 2012).
Colin S. Gray is Professor of International Politics and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading. He worked for many years in the United States as well as in Britain, and has long been an adviser to the US and British Governments. The subjects of his professional concerns and writings span most of the domain of strategy. His books include Modern Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare (London: Phoenix, 2006); The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010); (with John Andreas Olsen) eds., The Practice of Strategy: From Alexander the Great to the Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011); and War, Peace, and International Relations: An Introduction to Strategic History, 2nd edn (Abingdon:
Routledge, 2011). His next book will be Airpower for Strategic Effect (London: C. Hurst; New York, Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2012). Contributors:
John Baylis, Formerly Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Swansea University
James J. Wirtz, Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
John Garnett, formerly Woodrow Wilson professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and Chairman of the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College, London
Michael Sheehan, College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea
University
Thomas G. Mahnken,Visiting Scholar at the Phillip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins University
Jeffrey S. Lantis, Professor of Political Science at the College of Wooster
Darryl A. Howlett, Senior Lecturer in the Division of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton
Justin Morris, Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Hull
Daniel Moran, Professor of International and Military History in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
Eliot Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns
Hopkins University
Roger George, Associate Professor at the National War College, National Defense University
James D. Kiras, Associate Professor and Director of International Programs at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
C. Dale Walton, Lecturer in International Relations and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading
John Ferris, Professor of History at the University of Calgary
Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations
Jacob N. Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University
Rudolph P. Darken, Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School in
Monterey, California
Theo Farrell, Professor of War in the Modern World in the Department of War Studies at King's College London
Sheena Chestnut Greitens, doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University and fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs
John Sheldon, Assistant Professor of Space and Cyberspace Strategic Studies at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
James J. Wirtz, Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
Columba Peoples, Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Politics, Bristol University
Colin S. Gray, Professor of International Politics and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading
Jeannie Johnson, lecturer in the Political Science Department at Utah State University
Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War studies and Vice Principle at King's College, London
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John Baylis & James J. Wirtz: Introduction
Part I: Enduring Issues of Strategy
1: John Garnett: The Causes of War and the Conditions of Peace
2: Michael Sheehan: The Evolution of Modern Warfare
3: Thomas G. Mahnken: Strategic Theory
4: Jeffrey S. Lantis and Darryl A. Howlett: Strategic Culture
5: Justin Morris: Law, Politics, and the Use of Force
6: Daniel Moran: Geography and Strategy
7: Eliot Cohen: Technology and Warfare
8: Roger George: Intelligence and Strategy
Part II: Contemporary Problems
9: James D. Kiras: Irregular Warfare: Terrorism and Insurgency
10: C. Dale Walton: The Second Nuclear Age: Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century
11: John Baylis: The Control of Weapons of Mass Destruction
12: John Ferris: Conventional Power and Contemporary Warfare
13: Stephen Biddle: Iraq, Afganistan and American Military Transformation
14: Jacob N. Shapiro & Rudolph P. Darken: Homeland Security: A New Strategic Paradigm?
15: Sheena Chestnut Greitens and Theo Farrell: Humanitarian Intervention and Peace Operations
16: John Sheldon: The Rise of Cyberpower
Part III: The Future of Strategy
17: James J. Wirtz: A New Agenda for Security and Strategy?
18: Columba Peoples: Strategic Studies and its Critics
19: Colin S. Gray and Jeannie Johnson: The Practice of Strategy
20: Lawrence Freedman: Does Strategic Studies have a Future?
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