Strategy in the Contemporary World

This authoritative survey of strategic studies gives students a complete introduction to strategic thinking, from historical and theoretical approaches to the contemporary issues and challenges facing the world today. A team of expert authors present readers with key debates and a range of perspectives, encouraging critical thinking.

Bringing together experts from across the globe to provide a comprehensive introduction to strategic studies, this is the only overview to critically engage with both enduring and contemporary issues that dominate strategy. Throughout the chapters, readers are encouraged to explore key debates and alternative perspectives. A debates feature considers key controversies and presents opposing arguments, helping students to build critical thinking skills and reflect upon a wide range of perspectives.

The new edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the latest developments in the field of strategic studies. Four new chapters feature in-depth coverage of cyber power and conflict, strategic culture, the evolution of grand strategy in China, and the relationship between military technology and warfare.

Digital formats and resources

The seventh edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources

• The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
• Online resources for students include: case studies that help to contextualise and deepen understanding of key issues; web links and further reading that provide students with opportunities to deepen their understanding of main topics and explore further areas of research interest; and multiple choice questions that test students' knowledge of the chapters and provide instant feedback.

• Online resources for lecturers include: customisable PowerPoint slides to ensure clarity of explanation of key concepts and debates; and a test-bank of questions to reinforce key concepts and test students' understanding.

  More than just a fresh coat of intellectual paint, the 7th edition of Strategy in the Contemporary World is an important new instalment in an ongoing seminar about how the basic issues of international security affairs are evolving in an ever-changing world led by some of the most important contemporary thinkers on the subject. An indispensable resource for teachers and scholars.

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  John Baylis is Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations and a former Pro-Vice Chancellor at Swansea University. Prior to that he was Professor of International Politics and Dean of Social Sciences at Aberystwyth University. He has published more than 20 books and over a hundred chapters and articles. His books include The Makers of Nuclear Strategy, with John Garnett (Pinter, 1991); The Globalization of World Politics, with Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (8th edn, Oxford University Press, 2020); An Introduction to Global Politics, with Steven Lamy, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens (4th edn, Oxford University Press, 2016); and The British Nuclear Experience: The Role of Beliefs, Culture and Identity, with Kristan Stoddart (Oxford University Press, 2015). He has a BA, MSc (Econ), PhD, and DLitt from Swansea and Aberystwyth Universities.

  James J. Wirtz is a Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He is the author of Understanding Intelligence Failure (Routledge, 2017). Along with Loch Johnson, he is the editor of Intelligence: The Secret World of Spies (5th edn, Oxford University Press, 2019). He received his PhD from Columbia University.

  Jeannie L. Johnson is the Founding Director of the Center for Anticipatory Intelligence at Utah State University and an Associate Professor in the Political Science department. She is the author of The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture: Lessons Learned and Lost in America's Wars (Georgetown University Press, 2018) and the co-editor of Crossing Nuclear Thresholds: Leveraging Socio-Cultural Insights into Nuclear Decisionmaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Dr Johnson previously worked for the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence and the US State Department. She received her doctorate from the University of Reading in 2013.

  Inhalt

• 1: John Baylis, James J. Wirtz, and Jeannie L. Johnson: Introduction: Strategy in the Contemporary World

• Part I: Enduring Issues of Strategy

• 2: Beatrice Heuser: The History of the Practice of Strategy from Antiquity to Napoleon

• 3: Michael Sheehan: The Evolution of Modern Warfare

• 4: Thomas G. Mahnken: Strategic Theory

• 5: John Garnett and John Baylis: The Causes of War

• 6: Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky: Strategic Culture

• 7: Justin Morris: Law, Politics, and the Use of Force

• 8: Ryan Grauer: Technology and Warfare

• 9: Roger Z. George: Intelligence and Strategy

• 10: Daniel Moran: Geography and Strategy

• Part II: Contemporary Problems

• 11: James D. Kiras: Irregular Warfare: Terrorism and Insurgency

• 12: C. Dale Walton: Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-first Century

• 13: John Baylis: The Control of Weapons of Mass Destruction

• 14: John Ferris: Conventional Power and Contemporary Warfare

• 15: Sheena Chestnut Greitens: Humanitarian Intervention and Peace Operations

• 16: Ryan C. Maness, Rebecca Lorentz, and Brandon Valeriano: Cyber Conflict in the Age of Great Power Competition

• 17: Stephanie Ortmann and Nicholas Whittaker: Geopolitics and Grand Strategy

• 18: Oriana Skylar Mastro: Chinese Grand Strategy

• Part III: The Future of Strategy

• 19: Amitav Acharya and Jiajie He: Strategic Studies: The West and the Rest

• 20: Columba Peoples: Strategic Studies and its Critics

• 21: James J. Wirtz: A New Agenda for Security and Strategy?

• 22: Colin S. Gray and Jeannie L. Johnson: The Practice of Strategy

• 23: Sir Lawrence Freedman: Does Strategic Studies Have a Future?