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Blindside = how to anticipate forcing events and wild cards in global politics /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Blindside/ Francis Fukuyama, editor.
Reminder of title:	how to anticipate forcing events and wild cards in global politics /
other author:	Fukuyama, Francis.
Published:	Washington, D.C. :Brookings Institution Press, : c2007.,
Description:	vi, 198 p.
Notes:	"An American Interest Book."
Subject:	International relations. -
Online resource:	Click to View

Blindside = how to anticipate forcing events and wild cards in global politics /
Blindsidehow to anticipate forcing events and wild cards in global politics /[electronic resource] :Francis Fukuyama, editor. - Washington, D.C. :Brookings Institution Press,c2007. - vi, 198 p.

"An American Interest Book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-182) and index.

The challenges of uncertainty: an introduction / Francis Fukuyama -- Thinking about catastrophe / Richard A. Posner -- Cases: looking back -- Slow surprise: the dynamics of technology synergy / David Landes -- U.S. intelligence estimates of Soviet collapse: reality and perception / Bruce Berkowitz -- Econoshocks: the East Asian crisis case / David Hale -- Cases: looking ahead -- The once and future DARPA / William Bonvillian -- Fueled again? In search of energy security / Gal Luft and Anne Korin -- Emerging infectious diseases: are we prepared? / Scott Barrett -- Forecasting -- Ahead of the curve: anticipating strategic surprise / Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall -- Can scenarios help policymakers be both bold and careful? / Robert Lempert -- Innovation and adaptation: IT examples / Mitchell Waldrop -- What could be -- Cassandra vs. Pollyanna : a debate between James Kurth and Gregg Easterbrook -- Global discontinuities : a discussion with Owen Harries, Itamar Rabinovich, Niall Ferguson, and Scott Barrett -- American scenarios -- A discussion with Walter Russell Mead, Eliot Cohen, Anne Applebaum, Ruth Wedgwood, Bernard-Henry Levy, Peter Schwartz, Josef Joffe, and Francis Fukuyama -- Afterword / Francis Fukuyama -- Contributors -- Index.

"Focuses on developing analytical tools to anticipate and manage low-probability events. Addresses psychological and institutional obstacles preventing planning for low-probability tragedies and allocating necessary resources. Pinpoints failures---institutional and personal---that allowed events to surprise leaders and examines philosophies and methodologies of forecasting. Discusses low-probability, high-impact contingencies in various sectors"--Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Subjects--Topical Terms:

554886
International relations.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HV551.3 / .B57 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 363.34/7

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