Managing Strategic Surprise Lessons from Risk Management and Risk Assessment

Name: Managing Strategic Surprise Lessons from Risk Management and Risk Assessment
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ISBN: 9780521709606

ISBN-10: 0521709601

ISBN-13: 9780521709606

Edition: 2008

Authors: Paul Bracken, Ian Bremmer, David Gordon

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The scope and applicability of risk management have expanded greatly over the past decade. Banks, corporations, and public agencies employ its new technologies both in their daily operations and long-term investments. It would be unimaginable today for a global bank to operate without such systems in place. Similarly, many areas of public management, from NASA to the Centers for Disease Control, have recast their programs using risk management strategies. It is particularly striking, therefore, that such thinking has failed to penetrate the field of national security policy. Venturing into uncharted waters, Managing Strategic Surprise brings together risk management experts and…

Book details

List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/7/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

David Gordon received his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Critics of Marxism. His articles have appeared in Analysis, British Journal of Political Science, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Journal of Value Inquiry, Mind, Political Studies, Politics, Social Philosophy & Policy, and other journals.



List of figures


List of tables


List of contributors


Acknowledgements



Introduction




How to build a warning system




Intelligence management as risk management: the case of surprise attack




Nuclear proliferation epidemiology: uncertainty, surprise, and risk management




Precaution against terrorism




Defense planning and risk management in the presence of deep uncertainty




Managing energy security risks in a changing world




What markets miss: political stability frameworks and country risk




The risk of failed-state contagion




Conclusion: managing strategic surprise



Index