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The risk society at war : = terror, technology and strategy in the twenty-first century /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The risk society at war :/ Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen.
Reminder of title:	terror, technology and strategy in the twenty-first century /
Author:	Rasmussen, Mikkel Vedby,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	War. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511491634
ISBN:	9780511491634 (ebook)

The risk society at war : = terror, technology and strategy in the twenty-first century /
Rasmussen, Mikkel Vedby,1973-

The risk society at war :terror, technology and strategy in the twenty-first century /Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen. - 1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction -- 1. Strategy, strategic studies and risk -- 2. Technology: the revolution in military affairs -- 3. Doctrines: precautionary principles and anticipatory defence -- 4. Agents: the UN-approach and the terrorist-approach to warfare -- 5. Conclusions.

In the globalised world of the twenty-first century, security policy in Western societies is driven by a wish to prevent future threats from becoming reality. Applying theories of 'risk society' to the study of strategy, this book analyses the creation of a new approach to strategy. The author demonstrates that this approach creates new choices for policy-makers and challenges well-established truths within the study of security and strategy. He argues that since the seventeenth century the concept of strategy has served to rationalise new technologies, doctrines and agents. By outlining the history of the concept of strategy in terms of rationality, Rasmussen presents a framework for studying strategy in a time of risk and uses this framework to analyse how new technologies of war, pre-emptive doctrines, globalisation and the rise of the 'terrorist approach to warfare' can formulate a new theory of strategy.

ISBN: 9780511491634 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

570138
War.

LC Class. No.: JZ6385 / .R37 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 327.117

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