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ISSN: 0026-3982, 0462-4890
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In: The military engineer: TME, Band 97, Heft 637, S. 47-48
ISSN: 0026-3982, 0462-4890
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 73-90
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: Kidnap, Hijack and Extortion: The Response, S. 113-120
In: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 17-23
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 74, Heft 3, S. 321-333
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: International affairs, Band 87, Heft 6, S. 1281-1296
ISSN: 0020-5850
The determination that strategy should have a long-term predictive quality has left strategy seemingly wanting when having to address what are currently called 'strategic shocks', such as the recent Arab Spring and the NATO commitment to Libya. The focus on grand strategy, particularly in the US, is responsible for this trend. Its endeavour to mitigate risk in the national interest is inherently conservative, rather than opportunistic, and it is favoured and probably required by powers that are committed to the status quo, that need to manage diminishing resources, and that are dealing with relative decline. Strategy as traditionally but more narrowly defined by generals for use in a military context, is much more exploitative and proactive. Precisely because it is designed to be used in war it presumes that its function is offensive, that it will have to deal with chance and contingency, and that its aim is change. Its task is to deal with the uncertainties of war, and to respond to them while holding on to long-term perspectives. Clausewitz addressed the issue of 'war plans' in book VIII of On war, but the thinker who did most to inject planning into European strategic thought was Jomini. His influence has permeated much of American military thinking. The effect of nuclear planning in the Cold War was to ensure that strategy at the operational level became conflated with broader views of grand strategy - not least when the Cold War itself provided apparent continuity to strategic thought. Since 1990 we have been left with a view of strategy which fails to respond sensibly to chance and accident. Strategy needs context, and a sense of where and against whom it is to be applied. Its core task is to embrace contingency while holding on to long-term national interests. (International Affairs (Oxford) / SWP)
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International audience ; This article analyses specific acts of handwriting on paper in relation to digitization. It frames the artifact of the digital image of the handwritten note as a post-digital object, which is defined by the inseparability of analogue and digital and also highlights a relation to the digital in which internal opposition is a part of it. The article discusses the media function of post-digital contingency through two particular cases of handwriting on paper that circulates online. Firstly, it analyses post-digital handwriting in the political sphere using the example of the social media posting and sharing of Donald Trump's signature after he took presidential office. Secondly, it elaborates post-digital handwriting as an aesthetic phenomenon by discussing the Instagram account of renowned Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist who has posted nearly 4,500 handwritten notes to 320,000 followers over eight years. Finally, it places these discussions into the context of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger to arrive at a better understanding of how the ontological difference of post-digital handwriting is produced.
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In: Prepared for Governing in a Polarized Age: Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America, edited by Alan Gerber and Eric Schickler, Cambridge University Press, 2014 Forthcoming
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In: The Contingency Theory of Organizations, S. 245-272
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 113, Heft 766, S. 329-331
ISSN: 1944-785X
Drawing analogies between the global political situation in 1914 and the present misses the point: From its outbreak to its conclusion, the Great War was defined by uncertainty and accident.