Rethinking strategy and statecraft for the twenty-first century of complexity: a case for strategic diplomacy.
Today's most pressing security and policy challenges—great power conflict, economic interdependence, peacebuilding, climate change and other non-traditional threats such as pandemics—are all complex problems. Hyperconnectivity, power diffusion and radical technological transformation are significant...
| Publicado en: | International Affairs Vol. 98; no. 2; pp. 443 - 470 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2022
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