03236nam 2200649 450 991081609400332120230803220817.00-19-998739-40-19-998738-6(CKB)2550000001182813(EBL)1602512(SSID)ssj0001084757(PQKBManifestationID)12445834(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001084757(PQKBWorkID)11049861(PQKB)10732410(MiAaPQ)EBC1602512(Au-PeEL)EBL1602512(CaPaEBR)ebr10826578(CaONFJC)MIL562839(OCoLC)868068198(EXLCZ)99255000000118281320140127h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA sense of the enemy the high stakes history of reading your rival's mind /Zachary ShoreOxford, [England] ;New York, [New York] :Oxford University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (267 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-998737-8 1-306-31588-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; ConclusionAfterword: Fitting In: Some Thoughts on Scholarship, Sources, and MethodsAcknowledgments; Notes; Select Bibliography; IndexMore 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 the enemy imposes costs upon himself. It's at these unexpected moments, Shore explains, that successful leaders can learn what makes their rivals truly tick. Shore presents a uniquely revealPolitical leadershipPsychological aspectsHeads of statePsychologyEnemiesPsychologyPsychology, MilitaryPolitical leadershipPsychological aspects.Heads of statePsychology.EnemiesPsychology.Psychology, Military.320.01/9HIS027060HIS037030bisacshShore Zachary1634166MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816094003321A sense of the enemy3974267UNINA