Strategic Studies

Review – Strategy and Defense Policy for Small States

Godfrey Baldacchino • Dec 1 2022 • Features

Bernard Loo’s edited volume offers a new perspective on strategic studies, but ambiguity persists in how to conceptualise a small state.

US and Russia: The Gray Zone Spiral Toward Open War

Dan G. Cox and Bruce Stanley • Mar 7 2018 • Articles

While many view Russian use of the Gray Zone as a strategic conundrum, such conflicts can logically lead to open warfare.

The Art of Strategy

Dan G. Cox and Bruce Stanley • May 16 2017 • Articles

In a world full of transitions, it is important to add more voices to the chorus of those that observe world events and are concerned with the potential of future conflict.

Review – Clausewitz on Small War

Simon Taylor • Mar 12 2016 • Features

A welcome addition to the growing recent scholarship on Clausewitz which will add depth to theoretical and analytical approaches to war and strategic studies.

Review – Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis

Harvey M. Sapolsky • Aug 13 2015 • Features

Although there is much of value in this title, its attention to the usual suspects of big to medium powers should instead be focused on North Africa and the Middle East.

Practical and Impractical Knowledge about the Conflict in Ukraine

Timo Kivimäki • Mar 27 2014 • Articles

The crisis in Ukraine suggests that our knowledge of conflicts needs to be informed by the way in which conflict behavior changes the conflict setting.

Review – New Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century

Sue Jansen • Aug 26 2013 • Features

Pamment offers a meticulous reassessment of public diplomacy, but he falls short in critically interrogating the broader structural issues that have shaped new public diplomacy.

Strategic Theory: What it is…and just as importantly, what it isn’t

M.L.R Smith • Apr 28 2011 • Articles

Strategic theory offers an exact and coherent basis for investigating social phenomena. It is able to de-conflict the attempt to assess social activity designed to achieve goals from arbitrary moral valuations. It facilitates clarity of understanding, and is thereby, mind opening and intellectually liberating.

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