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Informationen zum Autor Yee-Kuang Heng Klappentext 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 in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. The author shows how 'risk' is now a key defining feature of our globalized era, encompassing issues from global financial meltdown, terrorism, infectious diseases, to environmental degradation and how its vocabulary, such as the Precautionary Principle, now permeates the way we think about war, and how it now appears in US and UK defence policy documents, and speeches from both civilian and military staff. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of strategic studies, war studies, international relations and globalization. Zusammenfassung This book is about the reconfiguration of war as risk management in the post-Cold War, post-September 11 era. Confronted with ill-defined ‘wars’ against complex security risks such as terrorism and WMD proliferation, the main aim is to suggest and critically analyse an innovative inter-disciplinary approach to the ‘transformation of war’ debate. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
