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The Cambridge History of Strategy

Volume 2. From the Napoleonic Wars to the Present

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Editors:
Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Universiteit Leiden
Beatrice Heuser, University of Glasgow

Alan Forrest, Ian Beckett, Andrey Pavlov, Donald Stoker, Andrew Lambert, Rotem Kowner, Christopher Yung, Robert Foley, Nikita Lomagin, Frans Osinga, Guillaume Piketty, David Horner, Laurien Crump, Mathilde von Bülow, Jeffrey Michaels, Antulio Echevarria, Xiaobing Li, Eitan Shamir, Eado Hecht, Sumit Ganguly, James Gow, Colin Clarke, Jan Angstrom, Ahmed Hashim, Christopher Yung, Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Beatrice Heuser, Samuel Zilincik

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Publication planned for: January 2025
availability: Not yet published - available from January 2025
format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108479929

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Volume II of The Cambridge History of Strategy focuses on the practice of strategy from 1800 to the present day. A team of leading scholars examine how leaders of states and empires and non-state groups, such as guerrilla forces, rebel- groups and terrorists have attempted to practice strategy in the modern period. With a focus in the actual 'doing' of strategy, the volume aims to understand the real world experiences when ideas about conflict are carried out against a responding and pro-active opponent. The case studies and the material presented in the volume form an invitation to rethink dominant perspectives in the field of strategic studies. As the case studies demonstrate, strategy is most often not a stylized, pre-meditated and wilful phenomenon. Rather it is a product of circumstance and opportunity, both structural and agential, leading to a view of strategy as an ad hoc, if not chaotic, enterprise.
- The second volume in a truly global history of strategy covering the entire world and all of recorded history
- Features twenty-four case studies from the Napoleonic Wars to conflict in the contemporary Middle East
- Written by a team of leading experts
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- Publication planned for: January 2025
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108479929
- length: 608 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
- availability: Not yet published - available from January 2025
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The strategies of the Napoleonic wars Alan Forrest
3. Guerrilla and nineteenth-century strategies of insurgency Ian Beckett
4. Russia, 1870–1917 Andrey Pavlov
5. The American civil war Donald Stoker
6. The use of naval power Andrew Lambert
7. The Russo–Japanese war Rotem Kowner
8. Chinese strategy 1926-1949 Christopher Yung
9. First world war Robert Foley
10. Russia civil war – till 1945 Nikita Lomagin
11. Air power Frans Osinga
12. The second world war in Europe Guillaume Piketty
13. The second world war in the Asia Pacific David Horner
14. Soviet strategy, 1945–1989 Laurien Crump
15. People's war and wars of decolonisation Mathilde von Bülow
16. Nuclear strategies Jeffrey Michaels
17. America's way of war Antulio Echevarria
18. The Korean war Xiaobing Li
19. Israel's wars Eitan Shamir and Eado Hecht
20. The India–Pakistan confrontations Sumit Ganguly
21. The Yugoslav wars, 1991–1999 James Gow
22. Terrorism and insurgency Colin Clarke
23. The forty year war in Afghanistan Jan Angstrom
24. The three Gulf wars and Iraq Ahmed Hashim
25. China's wars, 1950–2021 Christopher Yung
26. Conclusion Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Beatrice Heuser and Samuel Zilincik.
Editors
Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Universiteit Leiden
Isabelle Duyvesteyn is Professor of International Studies/Global History at the Institute of History at Leiden University. Between 2012 and 2017 she held the Special Chair in Strategic Studies at the Political Science Institute of Leiden University. Between 2008 and 2012 she was a member of the national Advisory Council for International Affairs assigned to advise the Netherlands government on issues of peace and security and between 2012 and 2021, she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Netherlands Defence Academy.
Beatrice Heuser, University of Glasgow
Beatrice Heuser holds the Chair of International Relations at the University of Glasgow, seconded to the General Staff College of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg as section chief for Strategy. She has worked at NATO Headquarters as a Consultant. She has served on academic advisory boards of the Royal United Services Institute, the French Institute of International Affairs (IFRI), and the French government's strategic studies think tank IRSEM.
Contributors
Alan Forrest, Ian Beckett, Andrey Pavlov, Donald Stoker, Andrew Lambert, Rotem Kowner, Christopher Yung, Robert Foley, Nikita Lomagin, Frans Osinga, Guillaume Piketty, David Horner, Laurien Crump, Mathilde von Bülow, Jeffrey Michaels, Antulio Echevarria, Xiaobing Li, Eitan Shamir, Eado Hecht, Sumit Ganguly, James Gow, Colin Clarke, Jan Angstrom, Ahmed Hashim, Christopher Yung, Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Beatrice Heuser, Samuel Zilincik