The Art of Creating Power
Freedman on Strategy
Published on 1. September 2017
514 pages
978-0-19-086276-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Art of Creating Power explores the intellectual thought and wider impact -- on military affairs, politics and the universities -- of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on strategy, conflict and international politics. In this volume, senior scholars of international relations and military history trace the long trajectory of Freedman's career, examining his scholarly contribution to a whole host of areas from nuclear strategy to US foreign policy via terrorism, the Falklands War, and Iraq.
Individually, these essays provide fascinating and innovative insights into strategy, contemporary defence and foreign policy, and conflict. Taken together, however, they are greater than the sum of their parts as they both reflect and explore the theoretical approach adopted and taught by Freedman - one that has made him one of the great intellectual figures in the canon of international politics, strategy and war.
Throughout his professional life, Freedman explored many of the uncertainties that plague our highly unstable world. But as conflicts continue to erupt across the globe, it seems we may be entering an even more precarious and uncertain era. There could hardly be a better time than today to gain a deeper understanding of Freedman's strategic insights.
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Benedict Wilkinson is Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London and holds a Research Fellowship in the Policy Institute at King's.
James Gow is Professor of International Peace and Security at King's College London. He is the author of several books on the former Yugoslavia, among them The Serbian Project and its Adversaries: A Strategy of War Crimes (Hurst, 2003), Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav Way (Hurst, 1997) and Legitimacy and the Military: The Yugoslav Crisis (1992). He was the first prosecution witness to be called at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Content
Preface
Foreword Sir Michael Howard
About the Contributors
Introduction James Gow and Benedict Wilkinson
PART 1
STRATEGY AND DETERRENCE
1. Strategic Theory as an Intellectual System Robert Ayson
2. Uncomfortable Visions: The Rise and Decline of the Idea of
Limited War Jan Willem Honig
3. Reflections on Lawrence Freedman's 'Deterrence'
Patrick M. Morgan
4. Deterrence and Democracy: Reflections on American
post-9/11 Homeland Security Richard A. Falkenrath
PART 2
ETHICS AND PRINCIPLES
5. Ethics in Asymmetrical Warfare Mervyn Frost
6. The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of 'Just War': Thinking from
Cicero to Chicago Beatrice Heuser
7. Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from the Past Two
Decades Richard Caplan
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8. 'Realism as an Unsentimental Intellectual Temper': Lawrence
Freedman and the New Interventionism Mats Berdal
PART 3
HISTORY AND POLICY
9. Essence of Indecision: Coup Scripts, Ngo Dinh Diem, and
the Kennedy Administration Jeffrey H. Michaels
10. The Operational Legacy of the Falklands
War Julian Thompson
11. The Iraq Syndrome Revisited: America's Use of Force
Debate under Obama David Hastings Dunn
12. Britain's Journey to a National Security Approach and the
Evolution of a Defence Academy John Gearson
PART 4
THEORY
13. Trust and International Relations Richard Ned Lebow
14. The Essence of Strategy: Constructivist Realism and Necessity
James Gow
15. Freedman and Machiavelli Philip Bobbitt
16. Strategic Scripts and Nuclear Disarmament
Matthew Harries and Benedict Wilkinson
PART 5
CONTEMPLATIONS
17. Confessions of a Premature Constructivist
Lawrence Freedman
18. Observations on Whitehall and Academia Sir David Omand
19. Reflections on the Freedman School James Gow
20. Conclusion James Gow and Benedict Wilkinson
Notes
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Index
