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National Resilience During War
Refining the Decision-Making Model
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2012
Summary
In political science, war is generally considered the most traumatic event a nation faces, often posing threats to a nation’s very existence. The challenge of surviving the war may, therefore, prove central to the life of a nation. However, national resilience during war has not yet been fully investigated. National Resilience during War: Refining the Decision-Making Model, by Eyal Lewin, searches for the mechanisms of national resilience through a deep inquiry into nine different case studies taken from the scenery of World War II. Following a multi-disciplinary attitude, a business management model is adopted (the PEST and SWOT model) and political, economic, social, and military-technological factors are analyzed for each of the case studies. The result is a comprehensive political decision-making model on a national level that can serve as a means for leaders to navigate successfully in geopolitical turbulence as well as for social scientists to better understand the defeats that different countries suffer and the victories that others demonstrate.
This research, however, goes further by refining the model and pointing to the exact combination of factors that are crucial for a nation's ability to win its wars. Using a qualitative comparative analysis technique, the exact combination is traced. The results emphasize that the winning scheme blends political and social factors together: leadership, positive psychology and an inspiring national ethos prove to be a necessary, though not a sufficient, conditional combination for success. National Resilience during War fills a significant gap in the literature on the politics of war.
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Edition
1/2012
Copyright Year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7458-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7459-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
316
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
List of Tables No access
List of Figures No access
Preface No access
Chapter 1. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 2. National Resilience in the Framework of a PEST and SWOT Model No access Pages 17 - 58
Chapter 3. The First Republic of Czechoslovakia and the Munich Crisis No access Pages 59 - 80
Chapter 4. The Fall of the Second Polish Republic No access Pages 81 - 102
Chapter 5. The Fall of the Kingdom of Norway No access Pages 103 - 116
Chapter 6. The Fall of the Kingdom of Belgium No access Pages 117 - 134
Chapter 7. The Fall of the French Third Republic No access Pages 135 - 158
Chapter 8. The Republic of Finland and the First Winter War No access Pages 159 - 180
Chapter 9. The Fall of the Third Reich No access Pages 181 - 206
Chapter 10. The United Kingdom and the Battle of Britain No access Pages 207 - 234
Chapter 11. The Soviet Union and the Battle of Moscow No access Pages 235 - 264
Chapter 12. A Qualitative Comparative Analysis No access Pages 265 - 270
