The Cambridge History of Strategy: Volume 2, From the Napoleonic Wars to the Present
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Volume II of The Cambridge History of Strategy focuses on the practice of strategy from 1800 to the present day. A team of leading scholars examine how leaders of states and empires and non-state groups, such as guerrilla forces, rebel- groups and terrorists have attempted to practice strategy in the modern period. With a focus in the actual 'doing' of strategy, the volume aims to understand the real world experiences when ideas about conflict are carried out against a responding and pro-active opponent. The case studies and the material presented in the volume form an invitation to rethink dominant perspectives in the field of strategic studies. As the case studies demonstrate, strategy is most often not a stylized, pre-meditated and wilful phenomenon. Rather it is a product of circumstance and opportunity, both structural and agential, leading to a view of strategy as an ad hoc, if not chaotic, enterprise.
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Publication Date: 31 Dec 2024
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781108479929
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Isabelle Duyvesteyn is Professor of International Studies/Global History at the Institute of History at Leiden University. Between 2012 and 2017 she held the Special Chair in Strategic Studies at the Political Science Institute of Leiden University. Between 2008 and 2012 she was a member of the national Advisory Council for International Affairs assigned to advise the Netherlands government on issues of peace and security and between 2012 and 2021 she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Netherlands Defence Academy. Beatrice Heuser holds the Chair of International Relations at the University of Glasgow seconded to the General Staff College of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg as section chief for Strategy. She has worked at NATO Headquarters as a Consultant. She has served on academic advisory boards of the Royal United Services Institute the French Institute of International Affairs (IFRI) and the French government's strategic studies think tank IRSEM.