Strategy is a simple and powerful method of analysis, it works in the abstract and it is new to most readers. Designed for the overburdened political operative, constituent steps of strategy are easy to understand, analyse or design once divested of their theoretical apparatus. Strategy's powers for coping with uncertainty and the unexpected are easily harnessed for the achievement of political success, and it is by this ease of application that the design of the present book may be judged. It is possible, for example, for the harried reader to go directly to the chapters on developing a...

This book focuses on the use of strategy for the purposes of managing and controlling change in health services. The present book explains the application of strategy to the management and control of change in health services, as well as providing some of the groundwork for professionals, managers or not, who are charged with or interested in change. Also the book provides tools for change that can be used by anyone, inside or outside the health care system, at any level and in a unit of any size. It also provides everyone in a particular organization with a common set of ideas and a common...

Counterinsurgency is the greatest challenge facing the armed forces of the US and NATO countries. This book explains how insurgents think, and how this is different from how the armed forces think. It includes a chapter exploring the type of thinking that

This book explains the application of strategy to the promotion of a more just society, as well as providing some of the groundwork for individuals and groups professionally charged or personally involved in that promotion. The goal of this book is to propose that strategy can be a suitable foundation for designing and carrying out a course of action in society.

By 2020, half of the world s population and most university students will have a supercomputer in their pockets. This will affect the way students respond to higher education. This book answers the question how university students can learn in the classroom what they cannot learn in any other way in political science. The answer given by Prof. Laure Paquette is an active pedagogy, at a time when active pedagogy is more.

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This book applies the ancient wisdom of the oppressed to the achievement of greater respect for human rights. It is the basis for a set of tools that the powerless can use to make the best of bad situations. One important part of these tools is the worksheet system, which is a knowledge transfer system. Another is a set of case studies illustrating how it can and has been used. It provides a suitable foundation for the analysis and design of overall sets of actions to achieve those goal, introducing the theoretical foundations of strategy and strategic intervention. It includes case studies...

This book illustrates the use of strategy by national and international groups using fictional case studies. The cases are fictional in the sense that the information provided was not collected using the methodology used for previous case studies about states or groups of states. Instead, the author combined characteristics and information as she saw necessary in order to make the example clear to the reader. The case studies include: an infra-national group strategizing to cope with a phenomenon, an individual, another infra-national group, a supranational group, a government or state, and a...