Sreeram Chaulia discusses how the field of strategic studies needs to adapt to changing times, as well as approaches to strategic partnerships, particularly India’s.
Many political science programs with an IR subfield in the US do not have a single faculty member trained as a strategist.
Bernard Loo’s edited volume offers a new perspective on strategic studies, but ambiguity persists in how to conceptualise a small state.
While many view Russian use of the Gray Zone as a strategic conundrum, such conflicts can logically lead to open warfare.
In a world full of transitions, it is important to add more voices to the chorus of those that observe world events and are concerned with the potential of future conflict.
A welcome addition to the growing recent scholarship on Clausewitz which will add depth to theoretical and analytical approaches to war and strategic studies.
Although there is much of value in this title, its attention to the usual suspects of big to medium powers should instead be focused on North Africa and the Middle East.
The crisis in Ukraine suggests that our knowledge of conflicts needs to be informed by the way in which conflict behavior changes the conflict setting.
Pamment offers a meticulous reassessment of public diplomacy, but he falls short in critically interrogating the broader structural issues that have shaped new public diplomacy.
Strategic theory offers an exact and coherent basis for investigating social phenomena. It is able to de-conflict the attempt to assess social activity designed to achieve goals from arbitrary moral valuations. It facilitates clarity of understanding, and is thereby, mind opening and intellectually liberating.
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