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Dahrné, Per. "Sjöstriden och den offensiva kulten : En studie av The Grand Fleet 1914-18." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-6011.
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Lennings, Christofer, and Emir Kadric. "Strategisk chock : Påverkan i svensk säkerhetsstrategi under tio år." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-37057.
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Under det senaste decenniet har Ryssland nyttjat det militära maktmedlet mot forna sovjetstater i syfte att uppnå politiska målsättningar. Skälen till detta är troligtvis flera, där Natos och EUs expandering till Rysslands närmaste intressesfär antas utgöra en väsentlig drivkraft. Den ryska interveneringen i Georgien år 2008 och annekteringen av Krim i Ukraina år 2014, var ur ett svenskt strategiperspektiv oväntade samt överraskande händelser som bidrog till djupgående förändringar av den svenska säkerhetsstrategin. Denna undersökning syftar till att analysera om och i så fall hur, dessa två ryska strategiska chocker har påverkat svensk säkerhetsstrategi under de senaste tio åren. Undersökningen ämnar även ge en ökad förståelse för utformningen av svenska säkerhetsstrategier, dess bakgrund, påverkansfaktorer och förhållande till ryskt geopolitiskt agerande. Denna kunskap skapar även förutsättningar att bättre förstå den aktuella strategin, generella säkerhetspolitiska ageranden likväl som den utgör ett bidrag till analys av framtida strategier. Denna fallstudie nyttjar en referensram som utgår ifrån Jacob Westbergs modell av strategins komponenter, miljö, mål, medel och metod. Genom textanalys studeras fyra analysenheter bestående av officiella säkerhetsstrategier och försvarspropositioner. Undersökningens första analysenhet utgörs av En strategi för Sveriges säkerhet från år 2006 och den sista analysenheten är Nationell säkerhetsstrategi från år 2017 med dess delrapport från år 2018. För att ytterligare berika empirin har även tidigare forskning inom ämnesområdet använts, likväl som rapporter från Försvarsberedningen och Försvarsmakten. Undersökningens slutsatser visar att de två strategiska chockerna har haft en betydande påverkan på svensk säkerhetsstrategi under det senaste decenniet. Chockerna har bidragit till ett skifte från internationella operationer, en solidaritetsdoktrin och ett frivilligt anställt försvar, till ett ökat fokus på närområdet, en form av Östersjöallians samt upprättandet av ett totalförsvar med värnplikt. Rysslands intervenering i Georgien hade dock inledningsvis en blygsam påverkan i jämförelse med annekteringen av Krim, som orsakade ett paradigmskifte inom svensk säkerhetsstrategi. Det framstår som att den första chocken delvis absorberades av en övertro till europeisk säkerhet i kombination med Sveriges 200-åriga tradition av fred samt den rotade synen på neutralitet och alliansfrihet. Den initialt absorberade chocken visar sig dock senare utgöra en förstärkare till den andra chocken, vilket leder till en helomvändning i säkerhetsstrategin. Följderna kan ses i återupprättandet av totalförsvaret, nya militära förmågor, ökad nationell försvarsförmåga och etableringen av en ökad permanent militär närvaro på Gotland. Det innebär även fördjupade bilaterala samarbeten med Finland, USA, NATO samt de nordiska och baltiska länderna. Svenskt fokus kanaliserades nu främst till två metoder, att kunna möta ett militärt väpnat angrepp mot Sverige, samt en form av alliansstrategi med främst Finland och USA i östersjöområdet.Over the course of the past ten years, Russia has used its military means against former Soviet states in an effort to achieve its political objectives. The explanations behind this behavior are probably several, but NATO’s and EU’s expansion to Russia’s proximity and area of interest could very well have played a significant role. The Russian intervention in Georgia in 2008 and the annexation of Crimea in 2014 were from a Swedish strategy perspective, both unexpected, surprising and led to severe changes in Swedish security strategy, thus by definition being strategic shocks. This study aims to analyze if and, in that case how two Russian strategic shocks have affected Sweden’s national security strategy over the course of the past decade. Thus, in doing so it contributes to an increase in understanding the development of Swedish security strategy, its underlying causes, background and relation to Russian geopolitical behavior. This knowledge will also help to better understand the current strategy, political security actions in general as well as a contribution to future analysis of strategies. This case study utilizes a frame of reference based on Jacob Westberg’s model of a strategies components, environment, ends, means andways, to define, analyze and evaluate the security strategy in its right context. Through qualitative text analysis, this case study analyzes four analysis units consisting of official security strategy and Defense bills by the Swedish government. Spanning from 2006 to the last unit, the National security strategy from 2017. To enrich the empirical analysis, earlier research on the subject at hand, as well as, reports from the Swedish Defense Commission and the Swedish armed forces have been added to the study. The study concludes that the two strategic shocks have in fact had a major impact on Swedish security strategies over the past decade. Causing a shift from focusing on international operations, a solidarity doctrine and a strictly professional armed force mainly used abroad, to focusing on Sweden’s immediate vicinity, with a Baltic Sea alliance and a re-establishment of a total defense concept. Russia’s intervention in Georgia had a modest impact compared to the annexation of Crimea which created a paradigm in Swedish security strategy. It seems like the first shock was partly absorbed due to a misbelief of European safety as well as Sweden’s two-hundred-year long history of peace, mainly due to a neutral- and alliance free policy. As a result, the first shock functioned as a catalyst, amplifying the impact of the second strategic shock, causing a total turnaround of the Swedish security strategy. Its effects initiated the re-establishment of a total defense concept, new military means, strengthening of the national defense and establishing an increased permanent military presence on Gotland. It also included deepening the bi-lateral co-operation with Finland, USA, the other Nordic-Baltic countries as well as with NATO. The Swedish security strategy is now being focused to two main courses of action. The first, being able to handle a military attack on Swedish soil, the other an alliance strategy with mainly Finland and the USA in the Baltic area.
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Jändel, Kristoffer. "Säkerhetspolitisk bristvara? : en kartläggning av svensk säkerhetsstrategi efter Försvarsbeslut 15." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-6604.
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This study examines the Swedish defense bill from 2015 to work out if the content can be considered as an official national security strategy of Sweden and if it can be considered a balanced strategy. The main conclusion of the study is that the defense bill contains information about the basic strategic components of ends, means, ways and context at the security strategy level. What is lacking is an analysis of the means available to Sweden. The study find that the strategy of the bill contains the elements of a security strategy. There is need of descriptions and analysis of the Swedish interior strategic context as well as the political, diplomatic, economic and strategic communications means available, and how they are to be deployed by the Swedish government to produce desired ends. The balance between end, ways, means and context in the Swedish security strategy is varying from reasonably good to non-existing, depending on the measured area.
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Folmerz, Nicklas. "Jakten på den fullständiga strategin : Ett analytiskt ramverk för vad som bör vara utmärkande för en fullständig strategi vid internationella insatser." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-4685.
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Historien visar att en avsaknad av en ledande idé kan få förödande konsekvenser. Det är svårt att jämföra dagens Sverige med de krigförande nationerna under andra världskriget, samt de förödande effekterna som en avsaknad av en strategi medförde räknat i förstörelse, död och lidande. Detta väcker frågan om Sverige har en utvecklad strategi för sitt internationella engagemang i allmänhet, och vid internationella insatser där det militära maktmedlet används i synnerhet. För Försvarsmakten kan det finnas ett mervärde med en övergripande strategi, en så kallad fullständig strategi. Denna strategi skapas av regering och riksdag, och syftar till att koordinera statens resurser inom flera politikområden med målsättningen att nå ett bättre samordnat resultat. Syftet med uppsatsen är att ta fram ett analytiskt ramverk med indikatorer som kan nyttjas till att identifiera vad som bör vara utmärkande för en fullständig strategi i samband med Sveriges internationella insatser. Uppsatsens resultat visar att indikatorer för att kunna identifiera vad som är utmärkande för en fullständig strategi är samordning/samverkan, ledning/styrning, målformulering, resurs och synergi, givet uppsatsens avgränsningar till det så kallade övergripande strategiska sammanhanget. Resultatet visar även att Sverige har en fullständig strategi med insatsen i Afghanistan.
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Silove, Nina. "Do great powers plan grand strategies? : the effects of strategic plans on the formation of grand strategy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711731.
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Macmillan, Alan. "Strategic culture and British grand strategy, 1945-1952." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324304.
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Kaushal, Sidharth. "Reconceptualising strategic culture as a focal point : the impact of strategic culture on a nation's grand strategy." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2018. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3841/.
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This thesis proposes to remedy some of the theoretical lacunae surrounding the topic of strategic culture by reconceptualising it in a way that is compatible with existing expected utility models of executive choice. Current theorising regarding strategic culture has been paralysed by an ongoing debate between the first and third generations of strategic culture theorists and by the persistent inability of scholars to provide a predictive framework based on the concept - meaning that it is unable to operate as anything other than a residual variable. The hypothesis of this thesis is that conceptualising strategic culture using Thomas Schelling's concept of a focal point permits us to sidestep some of the theoretical debates that have divided rationalists and theorists of strategic culture by allowing culture to be grafted on to a rational actor model of executive choice in a way that is progressive rather than degenerative. In order to test this theory, the thesis develops and subsequently tests the idea of a liberal strategic culture, utilising both the congruence method and within case process tracing to demonstrate the external validity of the theory being developed. The cases chosen span American administrations from the Cold War to the contemporary era and demonstrate the utility of a re conceptualised model of strategic culture across a range of geopolitical and domestic contexts.
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Langley, Amanda. "Strategic change in the pharmaceutical industry 1992-2002 : evolution and coevolution of firms' grand strategies." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2005. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/2715/.
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From the 1980s onwards pharmaceutical manufacture evolved from a fragmented industry to a global oligopoly. In the ecology literature coevolution theory proposes that V competing species (incumbent firms) interact and shape each others’ development, and V that this in turn potentially shapes the community (industry) structure. This suggests that when exploring how firms’ strategies changed during a period of significant industry change it is important to understand processes of both strategy evolution and coevolution in order to understand the dynamics of strategic change. This led to the research question ‘How did the realised strategies of a heterogeneous set of firms coevolve during the period of pharmaceutical industry consolidation from 1992-2002?’ In order to answer this a categorisation of strategic actions realised by firms in the pharmaceutical industry was developed. This was used as the basis of a methodological framework which used qualitative document analysis to longitudinally analyse how the grand strategies and strategic actions of a set of six pharmaceutical firms evolved and coevolved. These firms had arrived at different strategic outcomes and were selected using purposive sampling and replication logic. For the period 1992-2002 it was found that each firm realised unique patterns of grand strategy evolution. Further, the strategic actions that formed realised strategies coevolved both with the strategic actions of other firms and with the structure of the pharmaceutical industry as it became increasingly consolidated and globalised. Contributions to theories surrounding the environmental determinism versus strategic choice debate have been made with the findings supporting theories of coevolution, incremental and emergent strategy, and temporal patterns in strategy development. New contributions to knowledge were the development of a theory of pharmaceutical industry coevolution, development of a methodological framework for understanding strategic change in the pharmaceutical industry, and the creation of techniques to aid strategic decision making
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Schrader, Lutz. "Europas Antwort auf Bushs "Grand Strategy"." Universität Potsdam, 2004. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2010/4632/.
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Die EU-Staaten haben sich lange Zeit in die Rolle der „Vasallen“ und des „Brückenkopfs“ (Brzezinski 1999) gefügt, solange sie sich davon mehr Vor- als Nachteile versprechen konnten. Mit der Ausformung der Europäischen Union zu einem immer kompakteren wirtschaftlichen und finanzpolitischen Machtzentrum wächst auch das Bedürfnis nach einer kohärenteren und durchsetzungsfähigeren regionalen und globalen Interessenwahrnehmung in den internationalen Institutionen, gegenüber anderen Großmächten und regionalen Zusammenschlüssen sowie in gewaltsamen Konflikten, die die Interessen der EU-Staaten tangieren. Dieser Trend wird durch den unilateralen Kurs der Vereinigten Staaten zusätzlich verstärkt, der sich bereits unter der Präsidentschaft Clintons ausformte und unter der Bush-Administration eine bislang nicht gekannte Zuspitzung erfahren hat. Mit der Ablehnung des Kyoto-Protokolls und des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs, mit der Aufkündigung des ABM-Vertrages, dem Infragestellen des Teststoppabkommens und der Rehabilitierung des Krieges als Mittel der Politik haben die Vereinigten Staaten grundlegende Interessen, Ziele und Standards der EU-Staaten negiert und mithin ihre Gegenwehr herausgefordert.The author argues that the „Grand Strategy“ of the Bush Administration is not only challenging the international position and interests of the EU and its member states but also the European political and societal identity. In order to cope with this challenge, he suggests to elaborate a coherent and mobilising model for the Common Foreign and Security Policy. He proposes cooperative encouragement of democracy in the world through the democratisation of international relations and support of democratic regimes. The EU has to democratise its own institutions in order to preserve its international credibility. The author criticises that the European Convent has not done enough to define such a model. The „European Security Strategy“ can only be the beginning of a process of defining the strategic identity and interests of the European Union.
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Olson, Ebba, and Simon Thellsson. ""Det enda konstanta är förändring" : En studie som undersöker det beslutsunderlag som ligger till grund för strategiska förändringar, samt vilken roll ekonomistyrningen har vid dessa beslut." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-66079.
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Bakgrund och problem: Ett företags konkurrenskraft och överlevnadsförmåga hänger i mångt och mycket ihop med hur väl de kan förändra sig. Som ett verktyg för att hantera en föränderlig omvärld behöver företag därmed kunna förändra sin strategi, både på övergripande och detaljnivå. För att fatta rätt beslut behöver företag tänka på många aspekter, det blir därmed av största vikt för företag att se till vilket beslutsunderlag de använder vid beslut om strategiska förändringar. Som ett led i detta finns det en roll som ekonomistyrningen kan spela för företag när underlaget ska samlas in och användas. Syfte: Denna studies syfte är att öka kunskapen om på vilka grunder företag tar beslut om strategiska förändringar. Detta ska ske genom att redogöra för vilken typ av information som används som beslutsunderlag, samt vilken roll ekonomistyrning har vid, dessa beslut. Metod: Som forskningsmetod har en fallstudie med ett huvudföretag, Visma SPCS, valts. Utöver fallföretaget finns även två stycken referensföretag medverkande, i form av IKEA Kalmar samt ett anonymt företag, benämnt som Företag C. De intervjuer som hålls med företagen är av semi-strukturerad art, via antingen direkta intervjuer eller via telefon. Slutsats: Det som företagen anser vara viktigast när beslut om strategisk förändring ska fattas är att företaget har rätt historisk information för att kunna skapa sig en förståelse om företagets framtid, där olika information är olika viktig vid olika situationer. Allt som sker ska också vara med ett fokus mot företagets kunder, vilket påverkar vilket underlag som företagen lägger vikt vid. Ekonomistyrningen kan sägas spela en roll i att den ger underlag till företagen, baserat på vad företaget presterar, men att de även kan involvera sina medarbetare och använda ekonomistyrningen mer interaktivt.Background and problem: A company’s competitiveness and survivability is in many ways connected to their ability to change. As a tool to handle an ever-changing world, companies needs to be able to change their business strategy, both overall and on detail level. To be able to make the right decisions, companies needs to consider many aspects, it will therefore be of most importance that companies look at which basis of decisions they use in times of strategic strategic change. As a part in this, a company’s management control system could play a part in the way that this information is gathered and used. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to increase the knowledge about the reasons that companies make strategic changes, by explaining what kind of information companies use when they decide on strategic change, as well as the part that the company’s management control system plays in these situations. Method: As research method a case study was chosen, with one main case in Visma SPCS, as well as two other cases in IKEA Kalmar and the anonymous Företag C. The interviews are semi structured, via either telephone or in person. Conclusion: The thing that these companies think is most important when making decisions about strategic change is that the have an understanding about their situation and their future. Everything that the companies do should be with focus on their customers, and that affects the information they use when making these strategic decisions. Their management control system both plays a part as feedback, to see how the company’s performing, as well as involving the employees in the company’s strategic work.
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Milevski, Lukas. "The modern evolution of grand strategic thought." Thesis, University of Reading, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654728.
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Grand strategy is an amorphous concept, more often employed casually than rigorously defined. Its many definitions are frequently at odds with one another, sometimes being actually mutually exclusive. Grand strategy as a collection of contradictory concepts thereby, when used in learned debate, produces greater heat than light. Further, understanding within the academic disciplines of strategic I studies and international relations of the history of grand strategic thought is largely incomplete and actually mythologized. This mythology is premised upon one, or sometimes two, iconic theorists of grand strategy, ignoring the rest of the historical development of grand strategic thought. This historical work aims to illuminate the full evolution of grand strategic thought in the English language. It mixes semiological/semantic and onomasiological/thematic modes of inquiry to underscore not only how the term itself evolved in a myriad of different ways as geopolitical and geostrategic contexts changed, but also the effects of other ideas within strategic studies upon the shaping of grand strategic thought. Semantically, it traces the evolution and creation of ideas of grand strategy from the term's introduction into the English language in 1805 to the present day. Thematically, it examines how other concerns impacted the development of new concepts of grand strategy by invading grand strategy's conceptual space or by changing the strategic theoretic landscape within which those new concepts of grand strategy were conceived. Thus maritime strategy propelled grand strategy to embrace non-military instruments, and nuclear strategy elevated it into the realms of statecraft or policy. Grand strategy has always been sensitive to its context. Grand strategy as a concept has continually expanded. The thesis concludes by reflecting theoretically upon what the history of grand strategic thought may tell scholars, including ruminations concerning whether grand strategy is even a term worth retaining in the strategic lexicon.
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Morström, Peter. "Vägval för U.S. Grand Strategy efter 11 September." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1865.
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I uppsatsen presenterar författaren hur US Grand Strategy förändrats som en följd avterrorattackerna mot USA den 11 september 2001. Författaren pekar vidare påalternativa utvecklingsmöjligheter för US Grand Strategy och prövar om traditionellaanalysmodeller fortfarande är tillämpliga för att beskriva vägval för amerikanskutrikes och säkerhetspolitik.This essay aims to highlight possible developments for US Grand Strategy, as a resultof the terror events occurring September 11 2001. To reach this aim I am going topresent how US Grand Strategy has developed since September 11, and I also goingto present the strategy existing today. The aim is also to see if traditional analyticmodelsstill are working to demonstrate alternative US Grand Strategies.The empirical materials that are used in this essay are mostly speeches and documentsfrom people, who are representing the official US foreign and security-policy.For the analytic part in the essay, I have used two different analytic-models todescribe changes in US Grand Strategy. The first one is a model that Alexander Nachthas developed, and that one is described in the summer edition 1995 of WashingtonQuarterly. The second model is the one by Lars Maddox, which are described in “USGrand strategy Alternatives – After the Cold War”.I can establish the fact that US grand Strategy has changed since the attacks againstUS occurred September 11. The strategy today is more firm and unilateral in itscharacter, compared to the strategy dominated the period before September 11, andalso if we compares it with the Clinton-administration strategy.I establish the fact that there is more than one possible way for US grand Strategy todevelop. The development is very depended of how the scenario in the rest of theworld is developing, and especially how the crisis in the Middle East is going todevelop. The most likely as I see it is that US are going to draw nearer to a moremultilateral approach than the approach existing today.Multilateral organizations, coalition-partners and allies are the best and most longtermsolution to increase safety for US.I also notice that the existing analytic-models still are function to describe alternativechoices for US Grand strategies. But there is a need to develop those models, so theybetter mirror and describe the complex world, which foreign and security-policy iscomposed of.
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Brooks, Paul T. "American grand strategy in an age of terrorism." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Mar%5FBrooks.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Operations)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006."March 2006." Thesis Advisor(s): John Arquilla. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-182). Also available online.
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Udommongkolkul, Pratana. "China's grand strategy in the Mekong river basin." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612375.
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Danner, Lukas K. "Explaining China's Contradictory Grand Strategy: Why Legitimacy Matters." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3050.
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This dissertation analyzed the internal incoherence of China’s grand strategy. To do so, it used the cultural driver of honor to explain the contradictory behavior of China, which ranges from peaceful, responsible international actor to assertive, revisionist rising power with hegemonic ambitions. The central research question asked why China often diverges from Peaceful Development, thus leading to major contradictions as well as possible misperceptions on the part of other nations. Honor was the standard of reference that was utilized and examined in order to establish congruence and coherence between deed and praxis. Accordingly, the first hypothesis of this study posited that if policy diverges from or is incongruent with China’s standard of national honor, then the grand strategy is internally incoherent. Second, two further hypotheses posited that China will tend to use peaceful means if its goal is to enhance external legitimacy, whereas it will tend to use assertive means if its goal is to enhance internal legitimacy.
This dissertation began by broadly tracing the cultural driver of honor and the link between honor and legitimacy in Chinese history. The second part of the dissertation looked at the six most salient events within a six-year timeframe (2009-2015) by way of the focused, comparative single-case-study method. For each grand strategy policy input (military strategy, economic policy, and diplomatic policy), the two most salient events were carefully chosen. A fourth grand strategy input, legitimacy (both internal and external), was evaluated for each of these events as well. Methodologically speaking, this study used process tracing in these within-case studies of the single case of China’s grand strategy.
Results showed that China’s grand strategy manifestations are by and large legitimacy-driven and that, therefore, peaceful or assertive actions may be differentiated in terms of relation to external or internal legitimacy. In sum, this dissertation advanced an innovative means of inquiry into the grand strategy of a non-Western country, contributed valuable information for the policy community, and offered results that enable a re-evaluation of the debate on the peaceful or violent rise of China.
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Postingher, Paulo Sérgio. "O planejamento estratégico: um estudo em uma organização civil do Rio Grande do Sul." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2014. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/3344.
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Este trabalho teve como objetivo descrever os principais desafios e dificuldades enfrentadas no processo de implantação do planejamento estratégico no Centro de Educação Profissional São João Calábria, organização sem fins lucrativos de Porto Alegre no Rio Grande do Sul de acordo com a perspectiva dos seus principais gestores. Além de descrever e analisar os desafios e dificuldades enfrentadas no processo de implantação, também buscou demonstrar alguns de seus resultados. A pesquisa contemplou analisar o processo de adoção da técnica do planejamento estratégico, enfatizando a sua motivação, a forma de implementação, o grau de participação decisória dos membros não-gestores nesse processo, a sua estratégia na orientação das ações sociais típicas do terceiro setor nesta entidade profissional e voluntária e também avaliar os resultados alcançados pela organização após a implementação do planejamento estratégico. Foi realizada uma revisão da literatura sobre estratégia, gestão estratégica, planejamento estratégico e implementação do planejamento estratégico. A natureza da metodologia foi qualitativa, quanto aos fins, tratou-se de um estudo de campo descritivo, e quanto ao meio, um estudo de caso, pois se objetiva verificar o planejamento e a estratégia adotada e implementada na perspectiva dos gestores desta organização. Foram entrevistados sete gestores do Conselho operacional da organização, um gestor da Congregação dos Pobres Servos da Divina Providência e outros cinco colaboradores das atividades operacionais e de apoio. Os resultados revelam que o planejamento trouxe muitos benefícios e um crescimento da organização nos últimos dez anos, desde quando foi implantado. Também revelou que apesar do crescimento existem algumas lacunas que devem ser melhoradas para melhorar a vida dos colaboradores e dos beneficiários. O estudo ajudou a ter uma visão diferente das organizações de terceiro setor, que, muitas vezes, são avessas a ferramentas de gestão e de planejamento, pois os gestores confundem questões sociais com a sobrevivência, esquecendo de planejar e pensar as suas estratégias.
This paper aims to describe the implementation process of strategic planning at the Centro de Educação Profissional São João Calábria, a nonprofit organization in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, according to the perspective of its key managers. Besides analyzing this implementation process, it also seeks to show the results from it. For this research we analyzed the process of adopting the technique of strategic planning, highlighting its motivation, its way of implementation, the level of decisional participation of the non-managing members in this process, the strategy applied to guide the typical social actions of the third sector in this professional and voluntary institution, and we also evaluated the results achieved by the organization after the implementation of the strategic planning process. A literature review was conducted on strategy, strategic management, strategic planning and its implementation. The research consists of a case study with qualitative methodology applied to conduct a descriptive field study, since its aim is to verify the planning and strategy adopted and implemented in the perspective of managers of this organization. We interviewed seven members of the Operational Management Team in the organization, one manager of Congregação dos Pobres Servos da Divina Providência (Congregation of the Poor Servants of the Divine Providence) and five other subjects involved in the operational and support activities. The results show that planning has brought many benefits and growth to the organization over the past decade, since it was implemented. The results also revealed that, despite the growth, there are some gaps that need to be improved to improve the lives of both employees and beneficiaries. This study helped to have a different view of third sector organizations, which are often averse to planning and management tools, because managers misunderstand social issues and survival, forgetting to plan and think about their strategies.
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Ladis, Nikolaos. "Assessing Greek grand strategic thought and practice : insights from the strategic culture approach." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273805.
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Matusz, Karen L. "Implementing a Grand Strategy system—by what method: a case/field study of National Grocers' Peterborough distribution warehouse's Grand Strategy System effort." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40631.
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Harvey, Cllr Paul. "American defence policy and the gap in grand strategy." Thesis, University of Reading, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.515762.
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Broking, Darrell L. "Marshall Keeble and the Implementation of a Grand Strategy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2003. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/827.
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This study examines the development of Marshall Keeble’s work during the early and middle parts of the twentieth century in the Church of Christ. The purpose of this study is to examine the direction taken by Keeble in his work and determine whether he was a submissive Tom used by whites to accomplish their goals among blacks, or to determine if he was pursuing his own grand strategy to defuse racial tension in the Church of Christ. Conclusions of this research denote that Marshall Keeble was following a grand strategy, or a decisive course of action designed to erase the color line in the Church of Christ without the negative effects of creating further division in the church. The final analysis demonstrates that the strategy of Marshall Keeble was effective, whereas the strategy of Keeble’s contemporaries was impotent.
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Jarrett, Nathaniel W. "Collective Security and Coalition: British Grand Strategy, 1783-1797." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984129/.
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On 1 February 1793, the National Convention of Revolutionary France declared war on Great Britain and the Netherlands, expanding the list of France's enemies in the War of the First Coalition. Although British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger had predicted fifteen years of peace one year earlier, the French declaration of war initiated nearly a quarter century of war between Britain and France with only a brief respite during the Peace of Amiens. Britain entered the war amid both a nadir in British diplomacy and internal political divisions over the direction of British foreign policy. After becoming prime minister in 1783 in the aftermath of the War of American Independence, Pitt pursued financial and naval reform to recover British strength and cautious interventionism to end Britain's diplomatic isolation in Europe. He hoped to create a collective security system based on the principles of the territorial status quo, trade agreements, neutral rights, and resolution of diplomatic disputes through mediation - armed mediation if necessary. While his domestic measures largely met with success, Pitt's foreign policy suffered from a paucity of like-minded allies, contradictions between traditional hostility to France and emergent opposition to Russian expansion, Britain's limited ability to project power on the continent, and the even more limited will of Parliament to support such interventionism. Nevertheless, Pitt's collective security goal continued to shape British strategy in the War of the First Coalition, and the same challenges continued to plague the British war effort. This led to failure in the war and left the British fighting on alone after the Treaty of Campo Formio secured peace between France and its last continental foe, Austria, on 18 October 1797.
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Nesbitt, Ian Russell. "The instrument-element model : a grand-strategic model for war /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Sep%5FNesbitt.pdf.
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Kim, Jungsoo. "The proactive grand strategy for consensual and peaceful Korean unification." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion.exe/07Mar%5FKim%5FJungsoo.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Defense Decision Making and Planning) )--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2007.Thesis Advisor(s): Edward A. Olsen, Alice Lyman Miller. "March 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-109). Also available in print.
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Woolfson, Alexander F. "The discourse of exceptionalism and U.S. grand strategy, 1946-2009." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/397/.
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This thesis argues that American exceptionalism is a necessary, but insufficient, way of reading U.S. foreign policy. Exceptionalism is employed by different ideologists in different ways and in differing contexts. This thesis employs the contextualist methodology of Quentin Skinner to challenge proleptic, static understandings of American exceptionalism and, in doing so, uncovers American grand strategy as a keenly contested ideological battleground. In each constituent case study, the thesis identifies the ideological innovators of American strategic policy and the key moments of ideological innovation, and examines why ideological innovations became conventional, or not. The analysis proceeds with an introduction to the composition of grand strategy, continues with an examination of Quentin Skinner’s version of Cambridge School contextual analysis, and then places Skinnerian contextualism within the broader framework of International Relations theory. This analysis illustrates the methodological advantage of Skinnerian contextualism, which allows the reconstruction of the context in which past generations of ideological innovators operated and conceived of the world and the place of the United States within it. This specific type of analysis demonstrates ideological innovation in practice at four pivotal moments in American foreign policy: first, the emergence of containment as the cornerstone of the Truman Doctrine at the outset of the Cold War; second, détente and the supposed injection of realism into American foreign policy; third, President Clinton’s strategy of enlargement and the place of American exceptionalism in the aftermath of the Cold War; and, fourth, the Bush Doctrine and the interaction between American exceptionalism and neoconservatism. The thesis concludes by stressing the particularities of historical context, having demonstrated that, although exceptionalism has rarely been the only causal dynamic of American grand strategy, it has consistently provided the context with which innovating ideologists have been required to engage in order to create their own version of grand strategy.
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Solcerová, Olga. "Strategie marketingové komunikace pro lehkoatletický mítink "Velká cena Ústí nad Labem"." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-112889.
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The aim of this thesis was to create a new communications strategy for the athletics meeting called Grand Prix Ústí nad Labem, thereby ensuring greater participation of the audience. The first part of this thesis is focused on the theoretical background with an emphasis on marketing communication and it's differences in the focus on sport and the development of effective communication using the tools of the communication mix. The second part of this work is devoted to the history and present of the athletics in Ústí nad Labem and the history of Grand Prix Ústí nad Labem. The third part of this thesis describes the current operation of the athletic meeting, it's organizational structure and financial aspects of the existing communication strategy. The fourth part is the actual research conducted through questionnaires. The results of the survey and additional outputs from SPSS helped to create the fifth part, the part which is designed to refocus the athletic meeting communication strategy -- billboards, tickets, TV commercials, to improve Internet and Internet forums communications, etc., which should help increase public participation in the actual Grand Prix meeting Ústí nad Labem.
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Breton, Steven Daniel. "Imperial sunset : grand strategies of hegemons in relative decline." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26724.
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This thesis investigates the economic and military policies hegemons pursue while experiencing relative decline. Based upon the rising costs of leadership associated with hegemony, this thesis establishes that both systemic and domestic environments equally influence the hegemon's policy-making. Furthermore, the paper contends that hegemons do practice strategic planning during relative decline, in an effort to adjust its commitments and resources to the environment. Relative success or failure in maintaining the international system and thus adjusting for decline depends on how decision-makers compensate for two prevailing variables: threat of challengers and availability of allies. This study offers a predictive theoretical model for interpreting the dynamics of grand strategy formulation, compensating for the influences of the domestic environment three historical case studies, the Dutch Republic, Britain and the United States, test the accuracy and validity of the model. This thesis finds that periods of strong leadership, void of threat, while augmented by external balancing best support a hegemon's relative decline.
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Breton, Steven Daniel. "Imperial sunset, grand strategies of hegemons in relative decline." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ29532.pdf.
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Göth, Martin. "Sjömakt som grund för marint nordiskt samarbete i Östersjön." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-4684.
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Sverige och Finland har en ambition att skapa en gemensam sjöstyrka, SFNTG (Swedish Finnish Naval Task Group). Länderna har historiskt mycket gemensamt men har också olika utgångspunkter för sina respektive säkerhetspolitiska lösningar. Med sjömaktens betydelse för nationerna – den nationella uppfattningen om sjömakt, jämförs ländernas förutsättningar för att i framtiden fördjupa det marina samarbetet. I uppsatsen används Alfred T Mahan, Geoffrey Till och Eric Grove som teoretisk grund för att utifrån strategiska och doktrinära nationella dokument tydliggöra avgörande skillnader i ländernas syn på sjömakt. Den svenska utgångspunkten för sjömakt är global där den finska utgångspunkten är territoriellt försvar med en internationell ambition. Grundstenen i den finska marinen är kamp- och försvarsvilja medan det i Sverige snarare är internationellt samarbete och nätverk. Avgörande skillnader är nödvändigtvis inte begränsande utan kan ligga till grund för ett bättre gemensamt slutresultat där olika system kompletterar varandra på ett effektivt sätt.
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Farrell, Brian P. (Brian Padair) 1960. "War by consensus : power, perceptions and British grand strategy 1940-1943." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39350.
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From 1940 through 1943, British grand strategy was shaped by a broad consensus, generally accepted and understood in the central direction of the war. This consensus was based on the assumption of relative weakness, and was expressed by what may be termed the "wear down" approach: "to knock out the props" from under Axis military power by a combination of blockade, bombing, raids, subversion and sabotage, and peripheral campaigns. An ultimate direct assault would only be launched after enemy power had visibly declined. The balance, emphasis, and specific thrust of this outline changed; its essence did not. Even as a powerful Grand Alliance emerged, the British remained convinced that the assumption of relative weakness must continue to guide its grand strategy. This assumption was finally rejected by the coalition as a whole, but it proved well founded for the British themselves. Ultimately, however, this formulation of grand strategy by consensus was, in general, a sober and responsible interpretation of the overall British situation.
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Schumann, Matt. "British grand strategy and the Euro-colonial international system, 1754-61." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407302.
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Pandya, Harsh R. "Insurgency outcome and duration informing a grand strategy for COIN warfare /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/489042024/viewonline.
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Eklund, Timmy. "Making the Game Wiki Obsolete : Improving Approachability in Grand Strategy Games." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-174554.
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The aim of this thesis is to explore and investigate the possibility of improvements in approachability and player retention, in Grand Strategy games. This is important for game developers to be able to develop games more suited to a wider audience. This study will investigate whether these improvements can be made by giving players access to information, traditionally found on game wikis, inside the game in a non-intrusive manner. This was investigated through a pre-study of current trends in gamers usage of information resources outside the games themselves. It was determined that wikis are the most common resource, and that they are most commonly used in the middle of play. Because of this, three mock-ups of user interfaces, which could supply such information to the player in the midst of playing, were designed. They were then evaluated by a panel of experts, consisting of game developers and experienced Grand Strategy players. The mock-up deemed by the experts to have the best potential, a windowed in-game encyclopedia, was implemented as a prototype in a small game. This game was developed to emulate the gameplay, and positive and negative aspects of Grand Strategy games. This prototype was then tested using A/B-testing. Despite a low number of participants, the results showed that access to information found on wikis in the game does lead to better approachability. It can also be concluded that players are closer to reaching a Flow state, which will lead to potentially higher player retention.Syftet med denna uppsats är att utforska och undersöka möjliga förbättringar inom användarvänlighet och bevarande av spelares intresse, inom spel i genren Grand Strategy. Detta är viktigt för spelutvecklare, för att lättare kunna utveckla spel som passar en bredare publik. Denna studie kommer att undersöka huruvida sådana förbättringar kan uppnås genom att ge spelare tillgång till information, som traditionellt sett finns på wiki-sidor, inuti spelet, på ett sätt som inte stör spelaren. Detta undersöktes med hjälp av en förstudie av trender inom spelares användning av information från resurer utanför spelen. Den vanligaste resursen visade sig vara wiki-sidor. De används framförallt under tiden som man spelar. Baserat på detta skapades tre förslag på användargränssnitt som kan tillhandahålla information till spelaren medan de spelar. De utvärderades därefter av en expertpanel, som bestod av spelutvecklare och erfarna spelare inom Grand Strategy genren. En encyklopedi i ett fönster inuti spelet blev det förslag som ansågs ha bäst potential. En prototyp av denna encyklopedi implementerades i ett litet spel. Detta spel hade utvecklats för att efterlikna spel inom Grand Strategy genren. Både de positiva och de negativa aspekterna efterliknades. Prototypen testades därefter med A/B-testning. Trots ett lågt antal deltagare visade resultaten att tillgång till information från wiki-sidor inuti spelet ledde till bättre användarvänlighet. Slutsatsen kan även dras att spelare var närmare att nå ett Flow-state medan de spelade, vilket potentiellt kan leda till att spelares intresse bevaras och vill fortsätta spela spelet.
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Opsal, Ryan C. "Contrasting Oil Security Objectives Within A Grand Strategic Framework: The Case of the United States and China." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3193.
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Energy is a critical component of a state’s national security and economic considerations, and beginning in the 20th century, this focus has been acutely centered on oil. Having evolved globally, consisting of well-developed financial markets and maritime and pipeline routes traversing the world, the oil market provides massive amounts of crude to countries on a daily basis. However, not all states simply rely on the market for oil security, and instead take additional steps to secure their respective supplies. Oil supply security is a critical driver for large, consuming states, and merits further study. And, in terms of demand on the global supply, and sheer size, there are two giants that stand out, and deserve a closer look: the United States and China.
This research project approaches the task by understanding the grand strategies of both states. Using a grand strategic approach offers key advantages for analysis as both states pursue oil security in a strategic environment, and are forced to account for the various threats to supply, their own capabilities, and their ultimate security objectives.
The methodology used is a comparative, focused case study, in order to draw out differences and similarities between these two large consumers, and as a way of further illuminating the oil security approaches of both states, this research generates an oil security rating system using weightings derived from a principal components analysis on multiple countries, among several indicators, over a 22-year period.
Ultimately, the aim of this study is to demonstrate in as clear terms as possible, how these states pursue their respective strategies and whether each state may pose a threat to the oil security of the other, now or in the future.
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Zahradníček, Lukáš. "Marketing Strategy of GRANO Skuteč spol. s r.o." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-264426.
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This Diploma thesis covers the topic of marketing strategy of the Czech company GRANO Skuteč spol. s r.o. for entering the Austrian market. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. Theoretical part is focused on the process of planning a marketing strategy a of a building construction company. The practical part deals with the particular case of planning the marketing strategy for the company GRANO Skuteč spol. s r.o. Analyzes of the macro and micro environment are used to find the best solution, which recommended at the end of the thesis.
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Birkenthal, Sara M. "Grand Strategy in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Carter, Bush, and Obama Doctrines." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/598.
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This paper seeks to determine under what conditions a U.S. president can implement a grand strategy given the nature of domestic and international opportunities and constraints. It will examine three comparative case studies: Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, with the goal of determining what conditions are necessary at the individual, domestic, and systemic levels of analysis for grand strategy implementation. At the individual level, it will apply operational code analysis, as well as an examination of personal characteristics for each case study. At the domestic level, it will apply a five-prong test for examining factors that are key to grand strategy implementation: (1) unity of foreign policy team; (2) strength of presidency; (3) party alignment between Congress and the president; (4) public opinion; and (5) strength of domestic economy. At the systemic level, it will examine significant events faced by each president that tested whether his grand strategy could respond effectively to international imperatives. Ultimately, it will assess the success of each president's attempt at grand strategy implementation based on: (1) how closely U.S. policies aligned with his grand strategy; and (2) whether policies put in place that aligned with his grand strategy improved the global standing of the U.S. Through this analysis, it will assess the larger implications of having a grand strategy on U.S. foreign policy.
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Rodeman, Christopher A. "Time for change? Post-Cold War U.S. grand strategy in Northeast Asia." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/28612.
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Approved for public release; distribution unlimited.Despite dramatic changes in the Northeast Asian security environment, America's regiona lgrand strategy has continued to be guided by inertia. This thesis contends that a multipolar, balance of a power system is emerging in Northeast Asia, and that the appropriate U.S. response is to adopt a grand strategy of "selective engagement." While the first half of this thesis focuses on U.S. security interests, the Northeast Asian threat environment, and the shortcomings of post-Cold War U.S. policies, the second half describes the diplomatic, military and economic attributes of a selective engagement grand strategy, Recognizing that the age of geo-politics has not yet ended in Northeast Asia, U.S. diplomacy would endeavor to maintain equilibrium and preven the rise of a regional hegemon by castin the United States in the role of balancer, grand facilitator, and hones broker. Militarily, a selective engagement approach would capitalize on the strengths of a maritime grand strategy to provide more flexibility at a lower cost. Finally, a grand strategy of a selective engagement would acknowledge the centrality of economics to national security by linking economic policies directly to political and military strategy
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Chau, Donovan C. "Grand strategy into Africa : Communist China's use of political warfare, 1955-1976." Thesis, University of Reading, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.422782.
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Seddelmeyer, Laura M. "All the Way with LBJ?: Australian Grand Strategy and the Vietnam War." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1236630726.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, March, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. Release of full electronic text on OhioLINK has been delayed until April 1, 2014. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-108)
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Arminio, Joseph Anthony. "The grand strategy of the Han Empire in the second century B.C." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110872.
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Barrick, Nathan D. "For the Common Defense: The Evolution of National Security Strategy-Making Institutions & Impact on American Grand Strategy." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7739.
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This dissertation applies a Neoclassical Realism model to examine how the evolution of United States (U.S.) national security strategy-making institutions has resulted in a path dependent accrual of autonomy and increasing influence over the formulation of American grand strategy. Once U.S. national security strategy-making institutions were created, their existence inexorably led to increasing autonomy, the creation of new strategy-making institutions, and subtle influence in shaping American grand strategy by preferential focus on a militarized foreign policy. Additionally, the more autonomous these strategy-making institutions have become, the further they have strayed from the Constitutional mandate to create a government which provides for the common defense and the less successful they have been in implementing grand strategy for national security.
This dissertation examines this evolution in strategy-making institutions across three grand strategic moments: the end of the Spanish-American War (1898-1911), World War II and the beginnings of the Cold War (1940-1950), and the end of the Cold War (1980-present). Each case study discusses the historical facts of the grand strategic moment’s evolution in strategy-making institutions. These facts indicate durable shifts in autonomy and influence. The increasing autonomy is evidenced by the ability of these national security strategy-making institutions to define their own evolution, despite traditional American strategic culture perceptions about civilian control of the Military. These strategy-making institutions also shaped the formulation of American grand strategy and their evolution has had important transformative effects on American strategic culture and civil-military relations. While, fortunately, the U.S. can rely on ethical military professionalism, and the nation still holds its Military in high regard, this path-dependent process of structural evolution generates concern for the American People’s future and common defense.
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Rogers, Clifford J. "War cruel and sharp : English strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360 /." Woodbridge : the Boydell press, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38851617h.
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Glosny, Michael A. "The grand strategies of rising powers: reassurance, coercion, and balancing responses." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72850.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This dissertation asks: what explains variation in how other great powers respond to rising powers? It tries to explain why the emergence of a rising power sometimes leads to tension, rivalry, and war, and other times leads to less competitive responses. This project analyzes the effect of the rising power's grand strategy-whether it is reassurance or coercion--on the severity of the balancing response by the other major powers. I develop a theory of successful reassurance that shows how a rising power can prevent or minimize the severity of the balancing response by other great powers. Reassurance can limit the balancing response through two causal mechanisms: 1) reduced estimates that rising power is a threat; and 2) reaping the benefits from a rising power. I also develop a theory of coercion backfire that shows how a rising power that implements a grand strategy of coercion is more likely to make others feel especially threatened, and therefore more likely to provoke an early and especially firm response, exacerbating the severity of the balancing response. I apply this theory to explain the balancing responses to the rise of Germany from 1871 to 1907 and the rise of China in the post-Cold War world. The empirical tests and process tracing evidence demonstrate that rising powers, contrary to the expectations of most realist balance of power and rationalist accounts, have considerable agency to affect the balancing response. In the cases of the rising powers of contemporary China and Bismarckian Germany, grand strategies of reassurance convinced states to minimize the severity of their balancing responses, even as the rising power's material power continued to grow. In contrast, Wilhelmine Germany's grand strategy of coercion antagonized the other powers and pushed them to respond by balancing very severely. For the contemporary case of the rise of China, I use a variety of sources such as Chinese-language materials and extensive interviews from over two years of field work in China and Asia to examine China's grand strategy of reassurance and its effect on the responses by the United States, Japan, Russia, and India.
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Medin, John T. IV. "The Grand Strategy: A Study on Hannibal’s Stratagem During the Second Punic War." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/935.
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In this paper I sought to determine whether or not Hannibal Barca had a grand strategy to deal with the Romans during the Second Punic War. If Hannibal did have a strategy, I would try to determine what his strategy was and if it was actually feasible. I approached this question by looking into the background leading up to the Second Punic War, the primary sources explanation of Hannibal’s strategy during the Second Punic War, the logistical feasibility of the plan, and Hannibal’s movements throughout Italy during the war. In conclusion I decided that Hannibal did have a Grand strategy and that it was to alienate the Italian allied city-states from Rome in order to gain the logistical supplies and manpower to bring down Rome. In the end the reason that Hannibal lost the second Punic War is because he misunderstood the relationship that existed between the allied Italian states and Rome. This question is important because it sheds new light on the relations between Rome and its allied states. It also brings new questions to the foreground to try and explain what exactly was the relationship between Rome and its allies during this period.
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West, Kieran Martin. "Intelligence and the development of British grand strategy in the First World War." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609487.
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Pu, Xiaoyu. "Limited Rebranding: Status Signaling, Multiple Audiences, and the Incoherence of China’s Grand Strategy." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338257190.
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Beitelmair-Berini, Bernhard [Verfasser], and Subrata K. [Akademischer Betreuer] Mitra. "Delineating India’s Strategic Pluralism: The Subculture-Cleavage Model of Grand Strategic Thought / Bernhard Beitelmair-Berini ; Betreuer: Subrata K. Mitra." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2018. http://d-nb.info/117725249X/34.
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Marino, Felipe de Toledo. "Mudanças estratégicas: o caso da Unimed grande Florianópolis." Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 2011. http://tede.udesc.br/handle/handle/222.
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This current study is aimed at understanding the strategic changes occurring in a Cooperative Medical Group named Unimed Grande Florianópolis (UGF), located in Brazil, during the years 2000 to 2010, in terms of context, content and process. In order to do so, it the case study strategy was used with qualitative and descriptive character, within a context-process vision using the method of interpretive historical research. Data was collected by conducting interviews using semi-structured questionnaires, and applied to former directors of the organization, driven by literature review, document analysis and direct observation, concerning support for the following change theories: Organizational Growth (GREINER, 1972), Institutional Isomorphism (DIMAGGIO; POWELL, 1991), RBV or Resource-Based View (BARNEY, 1991) and Biography of Organizations (SALAMA, 1992) and, as a principal, the Contextualism (PETTIGREW, 1973; 1979; 1987; 1991; 2001). In addition to the grounds relating to the theories of change, the following issues were discussed: organizations as a social system, the context of organizations, organizational strategies and the results of research covering strategic change in health organizations. The changes in Unimed were organized into three strategic periods, reflecting different periods of management. The analysis and interpretation of the changes were made by classifying and grouping by affinity, enabling the identification of the following dimensions of change: (1) Financial and Legal, from the cooperative to the health insurance scenario, (2) Management, from the medical management to the professional management, (3) Marketing and Relationship, from disease´s assistance to the health promotion, (4) Products and Services, from the sale of health plans to the portfolio of services offerred, and, (5 ) Politics, from the local political activity to the expansion of political representation. In this context, it was found that the organization went through a time of crisis in the first stage, and by a series of changes that occurred in a continuous and incremental way during the later stages. As the main influencing factors were the political election processes of the medical directors and the regulation imposed by the National Health Agency (ANS)
O presente trabalho teve como objetivo compreender as mudanças estratégicas ocorridas na Cooperativa de trabalho médico Unimed Grande Florianópolis (UGF), no período de 2000 a 2010, em termos de contexto, conteúdo e processo. A estratégia de investigação utilizada foi o estudo de caso, de cunho qualitativo e descritivo, em uma visão contextual-processual, utilizando-se do método de investigação histórico-interpretativo. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas em profundidade com roteiro semi-estruturado, aplicadas em ex-dirigentes da organização, elaboradas a partir de análise documental, observação direta e dos fundamentos teóricos e práticos concernentes às abordagens de apoio de mudança: a teoria do ciclo de vida (GREINER, 1972), a teoria institucional (DI MAGGIO; POWELL, 1991), a VBR ou visão baseada em recursos (BARNEY, 1991) e a teoria biográfica (SALAMA, 1992) e, como principal, a abordagem teórica contextualista (PETTIGREW, 1973; 1979; 1987; 1991; 2001). Além dos fundamentos relativos à mudança, foram discutidos os assuntos: organizações como sistemas sociais, o contexto das organizações, as estratégias organizacionais e os resultados de pesquisas de mudança estratégica em organizações de saúde. As mudanças ocorridas na Unimed estudada foram organizadas em três períodos estratégicos, refletindo os períodos distintos de gestão da organização. A interpretação e a análise das mudanças foram feitas por meio da classificação e do agrupamento por grupos de afinidades, possibilitando a identificação das seguintes dimensões de mudança: (1) Financeira e Jurídica, de cooperativa para operadora de planos de saúde; (2) Gestão, da administração médica para a administração profissional; (3) Marketing e Relacionamento, da assistência à doença para a promoção de saúde; (4) Produtos e Serviços, da venda de planos de saúde à oferta de um portfólio de serviços próprios, e; (5) Política, da atuação política local para a representatividade política no Sistema. Pode-se verificar que a organização passou por um momento de crise na primeira fase e, por uma série de mudanças que ocorreram de forma contínua e incremental nas fases seguintes, tendo como principais fatores de influência os processos de eleição política dos dirigentes médicos e a regulação exercida pela Agência Nacional de Saúde (ANS)
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Seddelmeyer, Laura M. "'On the edge of Asia': Australian Grand Strategy and the English-Speaking Alliance, 1967-1980." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1399422337.
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Fergus, Stefan Andrew. "US foreign policy : domestic pluralism and the search for a grand strategy for China." Thesis, Durham University, 2011. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3345/.
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While each of the dominant theories of International Relations offers segmented contributions to contemporary foreign policy analysis – and consequently contradictory prescriptions for US-China policy – none of them simultaneously encapsulate the overarching historical trends in US foreign policy-making and the contemporary dynamics of foreign policy construction. This thesis, therefore, offers a historical account of the trends and traditions of US foreign policy through the lens of grand strategy; and follows this with an in-depth analysis of the post-Cold War era and the forces that seek to exert influence over the decision- and policy-making process. This aspect of the thesis concentrates on the three main sectors that battle for and claim policy-making dominance: the media; special interests and lobbies; and the executive branch itself. A proper understanding of how these three sectors interact is essential for understanding any underlying construction of US foreign policy, and in particular the struggle to marshal a contemporary grand strategy for China. From the Federalist Papers, to “Hearst’s War” in 1898, to the CNN Effect and controversies over press coverage of the Iraq War, the media has been an ever-present actor in US foreign relations; and yet its actual level of influence is difficult to ascertain. Like the media, the role of special interests has been a constant in US foreign policy and politics as a whole. Far from being the ‘conspiracy’ of popular imagination, lobbies and special interests have, at times, helped guide foreign policy – because they advocate popular policy positions, or because they are able to exploit disengaged policy elites. A final chapter analyses the importance of the president and other executive offices in the making of policy, building on the previous two chapters to present the case for an engaged president. Each of these chapters uses the problem of developing a grand strategy for China to examine and define a pluralist approach to contemporary US foreign policy-making. This study will conclude by locating the Obama administration’s early foreign policies and international experiences – again focusing on China – within this framework, and offer suggestions for how future policy issues could be surmounted through proper process.
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Chung, Chih-tung. "The evolution of Taiwan's grand strategy : from Chiang Kai-shek to Chen Shui-bian." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/594/.
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The thesis explores the concept of grand strategy and applies it to the development of Taiwan’s grand strategy between 1949 and 2008, from Presidents Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo and Lee Teng-hui to Chen Shui-bian. The thesis first examines the debates between the ‘classical’ war-centred and ‘neo-classical’ peace-centred perspectives in the realm of strategic studies and argues that these need not be mutually exclusive, but can in fact supplement one another. The thesis then adopts a stance of theoretical pluralism, whereby grand strategy is regarded as a process of power practice across periods of war and peace; it defines grand strategy as a cognitive state agent taking action to create and manipulate power in furthering its desired ends in a dynamic international society. This convergent perspective of grand strategy is designed to embrace these two schools of thought, since it is equally important for those who seek a better understanding of grand strategy in general and the evolution of Taiwan’s grand strategy in particular to focus both on how best to wage war and how best to preserve peace. To make sense of and to apply the concept of grand strategy, as an operational term, this thesis proposes four strategic analytical dimensions, namely, capability, choice, environment and posture, which are informed by the duality of four analytical pairs: ideational and material factors, ends and means, agency and structure, and defence and offence. Building upon this strategic analytical framework, the thesis moves to explore the perspective of leadership in Taipei against the backdrop of the politicalmilitary confrontation between the ROC on Taiwan and the PRC. The thesis investigates how and how far Taiwan’s grand strategy had been conditioned and developed by the influence of the Taipei-Beijing competition for sovereignty, changes in the international context, the unique strategic perspective of the successive presidents, domestic political developments and the asymmetry of national power between Taiwan and China. Through its investigation, the thesis argues that Taiwan’s grand strategy over the past six decades has been fundamentally driven by one prime factor: to secure the perspective of the ROC’s sovereign status as understood by Taipei’s leaders, not only across the Strait but also in international society.