Ethnic conflict now presents the thorniest problems for military
and civilian strategists of all stripes. This book presents a new
general theory of strategy, encompassing studies of the
relationship between values, interest, and strategy as these relate
to ethnic conflicts. It focuses on the relationship between values
and strategy, building a theory on the hypothesis that national
values influence national strategy. Paquette's research reveals
that national values influence national strategy through three
mechanisms: cognition, appreciation, and evaluation. Each
mechanism, and indeed the whole value-focused approach to strategic
thinking, is described using a network of interrelated
statements.
Paquette develops a methodology specific to the issues of
international security and ethnic considerations. She tests this
theory extensively for internal consistency before applying it to a
single historical case: French decision-making on national strategy
between 1955 and 1970; however, because of its generality, this
same theory could easily be applied to other cases. As with any
theory, it is possible to vary successively or simultaneously
assumptions or conditions and to derive new predictions. This
process of deriving variations has the potential to help in the
training of strategists, both military and civilian.
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