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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"grand strategy"”.
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Implementing a Grand Strategy system—by what method: a case/field study of National Grocers' Peterborough distribution warehouse's Grand Strategy System effort
… they must change the way they do business on a grand scale. Large scale organizational change is risky, hard, complex, unpredictable, and emotionally intense. On the other side of the coin, not changing in this turbulent day and age can even be riskier. National Grocers Company Limited is …
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Marshall Keeble and the Implementation of a Grand Strategy.
… or to determine if he was pursuing his own grand strategy to defuse racial tension in the Church of Christ. Conclusions of this research denote that Marshall Keeble was following a grand strategy, or a decisive course of action designed to erase the color line in the Church of Christ without …
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American Machiavelli: Samuel P. Huntington the Author of Grand Strategy
… this cohort best understood as “a trio” of grand strategists. Relying on newly available archival materials, this dissertation situates Huntington’s major academic writings within a life of driven political action, especially in connection with presidential campaigns and the Democratic …
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US Grand Strategy and Its Implications for the Asia-Pacific Region
… years has pursued some elements of primacy as a grand strategy both globally and regionally. In the post-9/11 era, however, the United States appears to have adopted some elements of offshore balancing in the Asia-Pacific region; it has tried to deal with international and regional affairs there …
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Russia's Strategic Nuclear Weapons Programs and Their Role in Russian Grand Strategy
… century. This thesis first summarizes Russian grand strategy and then links it to the future of Russia’s nuclear weapons programs. It seeks to forecast the role nuclear weapons will serve in restoring Russia’s power and status in the twenty-first century. In short, this is a limited assessment …
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The grand strategy of the Han Empire in the second century B.C.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1989.
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Economic statecraft with Chinese characteristics : the use of commercial actors in China's grand strategy
… study examines three important areas of China's grand strategy that feature economic statecraft prominently: Mainland relations toward Taiwan, China's efforts to secure access to strategic raw materials, and China's sovereign wealth funds. The study compares cases of both successful and …
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Wounded Hegemon: The 2003 Iraq War and George W. Bush's Grand Strategy of Primacy
… formed the decision to invade also shaped the strategy applied in its pursuit. The Iraq War and the Bush administration’s grand strategy of primacy stood on the administration’s belief that America possessed the unparalleled capacity to remake a country in its image.
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The second front grand strategy and civil-military relations of western allies and the USSR, 1938-1945
The debate about grand strategy in the Second World War has scarcely ended even in the 21st Century. The present study examines the classical issue of the grand strategy in Europe and the anti-Hitler coalition as concerns the US-UK-Soviet exchange about the Second Front. The great phenomenon of the …
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Entrée, Schemata, and Size of Effort: an Analysis of Us Grand Strategy, Policy, Strategy, and Plan Development Processes
… by which US bureaucratic agents develop grand strategies, policies, strategies, and plans since the end of the Cold War. Most scholarship, especially regarding grand strategy and strategy, is normative or didactic. If it is empirical, then it is historical and/or focused on principals. …
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United States Alliances With Australia and Japan in the Twenty-First Century: a Look At United States Grand Strategy For the Greater Asia-Pacific Region
The ongoing long-term military deployments in the Middle East and Central Asia to combat terror have severely strained U.S. resources. Given long-term U.S. geostrategic constraints, helping key allies in various regions of the world is vital to keeping the U.S. military from being over-extended. …
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Análisis de la política de defensa de la República Popular China en el Mar Meridional Chino, 2007-2016: aporte al debate del realismo defensivo de la grand-strategy chin
Tomando el período comprendido entre el 2007 y el 2016, en este trabajo se combina un análisis del proceso de modernización militar chino, con un enfoque en las capacidades hacia el Mar Meridional de China, con un estudio de las reacciones de Beijing a los intentos de los demás Estados de la región …
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The grand strategies of rising powers: reassurance, coercion, and balancing responses
… analyzes the effect of the rising power's grand strategy-whether it is reassurance or coercion--on the severity of the balancing response by the other major powers. I develop a theory of successful reassurance that shows how a rising power can prevent or minimize the severity of the …
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Twilight of the Republic: Security Competition and the American Experience
… the costs of the American Empire and its current grand strategy of primacy and explain why it is harmful to the security of the United States and the republican ideals for which it stands. This study was undertaken because the choices Washington makes on a day-to-day basis affect every American, …
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Freedom, Independence, Peace: Revisiting the Foreign Policy of John Quincy Adams
… have argued that containment is an inadequate grand strategy for twenty-first century America. But what should replace it? George Kennan, for one, proposed that a foreign policy derived from the principles of John Quincy Adams would better suit America's needs, interests, and limitations. This …
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The systemic and ideological sources of grand strategic doctrine : American foreign policy in the twentieth century
… study proposes and tests a theory of American grand strategy that places an emphasis on two key variables: the ideological content of American liberalism and geopolitical conditions abroad. It distinguishes between two varieties of thought within the American liberal tradition-termed negative …
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The Geopolitical Rise of India and the Development of Sino-Indian Relations
… is analyzed for its effect on modern Indian grand strategy and geopolitics, with the argument that an evolution in Indian strategic thought has taken place that will allow India to become a great power in the international system. Knowledge gained from analyses of these areas in then applied …
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Combined operations: British naval and military co-operation in the wars of 1688-1713
… the military component of Britain's wartime Grand Strategy. With respect to the former, previous definitions embodying the benchmarks of objectives and composition of force are set against the history and built upon to incorporate three further categories of definition: theatre of war, …
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Intervention, war expansion, and the international sources of civil war
… of conflict, conflict prevention, and U.S. grand strategy.
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Ike's Last War: Making War Safe for Society
… between war and society as he executed his grand strategy, further removing society from the decision for war. To avoid what he believed to be the inevitable global destruction of a general war turned nuclear, Eisenhower broadened the scope of ‘war” to balance domestic opinion for containing …
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