Social Change, Strategies for Managers, International Relations - General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Public Policies

The Path to Peace

Name: The Path to Peace
Author: Laure Parquette
ISBN: 9781590337325

by Laure Parquette

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Overview

This book is the most recent installment in a series of books and articles introducing a new general theory of strategy and its applications to an audience primarily composed of non-strategists. This series of books and articles are integrated along three axes. The first axis focuses on methodological and theoretical development of this new theory. The second axis presents several structured sets of case studies focusing on the various types of actors in political science, broadly defined. The third axis presents a series of exercises and worksheets which pertain either to particular applications of strategy or which stand the intellectual development of a good strategist. These limbering and strengthening exercises are intended to offer a program of training for strategy, by leading to the gymnastic performance of it. The goal of this book is to propose that strategy can be not only a suitable foundation for the analysis of international events and the prescription of a course of action in the international system, but also provides the tools that support professionals involved in these decisions and processes. By taking into account strategic interactions, it is possible to predict and therefore to foster more peaceful relations among and within states. Strategy provides a useful forecasting tool for relations between various types of actors (individuals, groups, non-governmental organizations, states, international organization of states) that are fraught or otherwise difficult. Finally, although strategy is initially a difficult form of analysis, the individual steps are not – its powers for helping to cope with uncertainty and the unexpected can be harnessed for the greatercommon good. The present book proposes a step-by-step method for the analysis of events of international significance. At the core of this proposal is the notion that values and action are the two basic building blocks of all human behavior, including those of actors on the international stage. Values are timeless, universal, uncontroversial notions that virtually every community cherishes: survival, justice, economy, self-fulfillment, or self-respect.