Overview
Offers an analysis that builds strategic/intelligence theory into a practical foreign/defense policy application
Introduces the tools of analyzing strategic and intelligence issues
Dispels the myths surrounding issues like terrorism and nuclear proliferation
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Small state
- proliferation
- strategy
- OODA Loop
- Max Weber
- Rationality
- Power
- International Environment
- Security Dilemma
- Strategic Theory
- Boyd's dialectic engine
- Synthesis
- Intelligence
- Nuclear Weapons
- American Strategic Style
- Geography
- Corona Project
- California Institute of Technology
- Mao Zedong
- China Missile Program 1960s
About this book
Small state behavior has been largely ignored by academics in both international relations and strategic/intelligence studies. Yet, when we analyze the root causes of war, insurrections, rebellions, revolutions and general sociological human behavior, it is the small state actors that are usually at the epicenter of the tumultuous event. It is the spark from inside the small state actor – whether it is Serbia, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq or Syria -- that seemingly leads to internal and external confrontations that inevitably involve much larger states. To date, a book length analysis like this has yet to be published.
The scope of this project is to provide an analysis of a sampling of small state’s behavior in order to build on a unifying theory of security/intelligence studies. This analysis will necessarily survey the breadth of security/intelligence studies from Clausewitz to current applicable United Nations’ Resolutions and international law. In short, if we can understand how political structures affect the behavior of small states, it will be a major contribution to the field of security/intelligence studies enabling policy makers, scholars and the general public to separate fact from myth in analyzing the strategic policies of small states.
Reviews
“Building theory in tandem with the case studies, David’s Sling reveals the strategic aspect of small state behavior in response to incentives and constraints. Long overlooked, this strategic behavior finally gets its due in this work that has implications for preventing a crisis involving a small state from escalating to a broader war, and for re-introducing security and intelligence studies to the academic study of foreign policy.” (Gordon A. Babst, Associate Professor, Chapman University, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Patrick C. Coaty is Professor and Chairman at Orange Coast College in California, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Small State Behavior in Strategic and Intelligence Studies
Book Subtitle: David’s Sling
Authors: Patrick C. Coaty
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89447-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89446-1Published: 24 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07772-3Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89447-8Published: 08 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 173
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations Theory, International Security Studies, International Organization, Foreign Policy, Diplomacy