1st Edition
War as Risk Management Strategy and Conflict in an Age of Globalised Risks
By Yee-Kuang Heng
Copyright 2006
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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This major new study shows how war can be thought of in terms of proactive risk management rather than in terms of conventional threat response.
It addresses why the study of ‘risk management’ has helped fields such as sociology and criminology conceptualize new policy challenges but has made limited impact on Strategic Studies with new case studies of recent Anglo-American military campaigns... Read more
1. The Problem at Hand 2. The State of the Art 3. War and Emerging Strategic Principles 4. Risk Management, IR and War 5. The Kosovo Campaign 6. War as a ‘Risk Management’ Exercise 7. The Afghan Campaign and the ‘War’ on Terrorism 8. Risk Management Vindicated? 9. Iraq: Textbook Risk Management or Flawed Strategy? Conclusion
Biography
Yee-Kuang Heng
