Strategy And Defense Policy For Small States: Problems And Prospects - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9811244286 ISBN 13: 9789811244285

Publisher: WSPC, 2021

Synopsis

For students of Strategic Studies in small countries with limited financial, human and military resources, the available literature on Strategic Studies, in particular texts that seek to explain the key concepts and components of Strategic Studies, can be very alien in its focus to the strategic conditions and issues that these countries face.This book contains a collection of essays that seeks to discuss key concepts in Strategic Studies, as well as contemporary challenges in strategy and defence policy, from the perspective of small states. It is based on the idea -- derived from the German philosopher of war, Carl von Clausewitz -- that there is a distinction between logic and grammar: while the field of Strategic Studies contains a number of key concepts (such as geopolitics and geostrategy, strategic culture, arms dynamics and the phenomenon of military modernization) that are universal in logic, the grammar (that is, the specific manifestations of these concepts) in the contexts of small states is necessarily different from larger, more materially endowed, states.Related Link(s)Press Release -- Strategy and Defence Policy for Small States: Problems and Prospects;

Edition details

• Publisher: WSPC
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811244286
• ISBN 13: 9789811244285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 188
• Editor: Loo S Rajaratnam School Of International Studies Nanyang Technological University Singapore Bernard F W