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Shore Zachary |
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A sense of the enemy : the high stakes history of reading your rival's mind / / Zachary Shore |
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Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-998739-4 |
0-19-998738-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (267 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political leadership - Psychological aspects |
Heads of state - Psychology |
Enemies - Psychology |
Psychology, Military |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Introduction: Seeking Strategic Empathy; 1. The Conscience of an Empire: Gandhi and the British Character; 2. Arming Your Enemy: Stresemann's Maneuver, Act I; 3. Steady on the Tightrope: Stresemann's Maneuver, Act II; 4. Stalin the Simulator: The Problem of Projected Rationality; 5. A Rendezvous With Evil: How Roosevelt Read Hitler; 6. Hanoi's New Foe: Le Duan Prepares for America; 7. Counting Bodies: The Benefits of Escalation; 8. The Continuity Conundrum: When the Past Misleads; 9. Number Worship: The Quant's Prediction Problem; Conclusion |
Afterword: Fitting In: Some Thoughts on Scholarship, Sources, and MethodsAcknowledgments; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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More than two thousand years ago the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu advised us to know our enemies. The question has always been how. In A Sense of the Enemy, the historian Zachary Shore demonstrates that leaders can best understand an opponent not simply from his pattern of past behavior, but from his behavior at pattern breaks. Meaningful pattern breaks occur during dramatic deviations from the routine, when |
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