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Strategic Survey 2009 (Hardcover, 109th edition)
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Strategic Survey 2009 (Hardcover, 109th edition)
Series: Strategic Survey
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The Strategic Survey is a journal of records that includes all
relevant names and titles, chronologies and dates. But it is also
much more: the hard facts are embossed in considered and nuanced
analysis over 300 pages of text. The Strategic Survey opens with
'Perspectives', an assessment of the effect of major events and
trends on the strategic landscape. Next, particular strategic
policy issues, such as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction,
missile defence and the future of peacekeeping, are examined in
separate chapters. Another eighteen to twenty chapters of similar
length, written along thematic rather than merely chronological
lines, cover developments in particular regions or countries. The
Strategic Survey concludes with 'Prospectives', an essay setting
forth strategic priorities for the coming year. Also included are
thirty-two pages of maps depicting strategically important activity
and political change - such as piracy and Russia's new federal
districts - globally, regionally and locally. The interplay of
political developments and the actual or potential use of military
force remains The Strategic Survey's chief concern. Nevertheless,
since the end of the Cold War and of the first distinct post-Cold
War period, the Institute has recognised that any survey of matters
strategic needs to broaden its scope to embrace economic
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