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    Blindside : how to anticipate forcing events and wild cards in global politics (2007)
    Washington, D.C : Brookings Institution Press
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    Format: Online-Ressource (vi, 198 p)
    ISBN: 1281029637 , 9781281029638 , 9780815729891
    Content: A host of catastrophes, natural and otherwise, as well as some pleasant surpriseslike the sudden end of the cold war without a shot being firedhave caught governments and societies unprepared many times in recent decades. September 11 is only the most obvious recent example among many unforeseen events that have changed, even redefined our lives. We have every reason to expect more such events in future. Several kinds of unanticipated scenariosparticularly those of low probability and high impacthave the potential to escalate into systemic crises. Even positive surprises can be major policy challenges. Anticipating and managing low-probability events is a critically important challenge to contemporary policymakers, who increasingly recognize that they lack the analytical tools to do so. Developing such tools is the focus of this insightful and perceptive volume, edited by renowned author Francis Fukuyama and sponsored by The American Interest magazine. Bl indside is organized into four main sections. "Thinking about Strategic Surprise" addresses the psychological and institutional obstacles that prevent leaders from planning for low-probability tragedies and allocating the necessary resources to deal with them. The following two sections pinpoint the failuresinstitutional as well as personalthat allowed key historical events to take leaders by surprise, and examine the philosophies and methodologies of forecasting. In "Pollyana vs. Cassandra," for example, James Kurth and Gregg Easterbrook debate the future state of the world going forward. Mitchell Waldrop explores why technology forecasting is so poor and why that is likely to remain the case. In the book's final section, "What Could Be," internationally renowned authorities discuss low probability, high-impact contingencies in their area of expertise. For example, Scott Barrett looks at
    Content: Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- The Challenges of Uncertainty: An Introduction -- Thinking about Catastrophe -- Part One: Cases: Looking Back -- Slow Surprise: The Dynamics of Technology Synergy -- U.S. Intelligence Estimates of Soviet Collapse: Reality and Perception -- Econoshocks: The East Asian Crisis Case -- Part Two: Cases: Looking Ahead -- The Once and Future DARPA -- Fueled Again? In Search of Energy Security -- Emerging Infectious Diseases: Are We Prepared? -- Part Three: Forecasting -- Ahead of the Curve: Anticipating Strategic Surprise -- Can Scenarios Help Policymakers Be Both Bold and Careful? -- Innovation and Adaptation: IT Examples -- Part Four: What Could Be -- Cassandra versus Pollyanna -- Global Discontinuities -- American Scenarios -- Afterword -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
    Note: "An American Interest Book , Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-182) and index , ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""1. The Challenges of Uncertainty: An Introduction - by Francis Fukuyama""; ""2. Thinking about Catastrophe - by Richard A. Posner""; ""Part I. Cases: Looking Back""; ""3. Slow Surprise: The Dynamics of Technology Synergy - by David Landes""; ""4. U.S. Intelligence Estimates of Soviet Collapse: Reality and Perception - by Bruce Berkowitz""; ""5. Econoshocks: The East Asian Crisis Case - by David Hale""; ""Part II. Cases: Looking Ahead""; ""6. The Once and Future DARPA - by William B. Bonvillian"" , ""7. Fueled Again? In Search of Energy Security - by Gal Luft and Anne Korin""""8. Emerging Infectious Diseases: Are We Prepared?""; ""Part III. Forecasting""; ""9. Ahead of the Curve: Anticipating Strategic Surprise - by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall""; ""10. Can Scenarios Help Policymakers Be Both Bold and Careful? - by Robert Lempert""; ""11. Innovation and Adaptation: IT Examples - by M. Michell Waldrop""; ""Part IV. What Could Be""; ""12. Cassandra versus Pollyanna - A Debate between James Kurth and Gregg Easterbrook"" , ""13. Global Discontinuities - A Discussion with Owen Harries, Itamar Rabinovich, Niall Ferguson, and Scott Barrett""""14. American Scenarios - A Discussion with Walter Russell Mead, Eliot Cohen, Ruth Wedgwood, Anne Applebaum, Bernard-Henri Levy, Josef Joffe, Peter Schwartz, and Francis Fukuyama""; ""15. Afterword - by Francis Fukuyama""; ""Notes""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1281029572
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780815729907
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Blindside : How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics
    Language: English
    URL: Volltext
    Author information: Fukuyama, Francis 1952-
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    Blindside : how to anticipate forcing events and wild cards in global politics (2010)
    Washington, D.C : Brookings Institution Press
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    gbv_1003581013
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 198 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
    ISBN: 0815729901 , 0815729898 , 1281029637 , 9780815729907 , 9780815729891 , 9781281029638
    Uniform Title: American interest
    Content: "Focuses on developing analytical tools to anticipate and manage low-probability events. Addresses psychological and institutional obstacles preventing planning for low-probability tragedies and allocating necessary resources. Pinpoints failures---institutional and personal---that allowed events to surprise leaders and examines philosophies and methodologies of forecasting. Discusses low-probability, high-impact contingencies in various sectors"--Provided by publisher
    Content: The challenges of uncertainty: an introduction / Francis Fukuyama -- Thinking about catastrophe / Richard A. Posner -- Cases: looking back -- Slow surprise: the dynamics of technology synergy / David Landes -- U.S. intelligence estimates of Soviet collapse: reality and perception / Bruce Berkowitz -- Econoshocks: the East Asian crisis case / David Hale -- Cases: looking ahead -- The once and future DARPA / William B. Bonvillian -- Fueled again? In search of energy security / Gal Luft and Anne Korin -- Emerging infectious diseases: are we prepared? / Scott Barrett -- Forecasting -- Ahead of the curve: anticipating strategic surprise / Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall -- Can scenarios help policymakers be both bold and careful? / Robert Lempert -- Innovation and adaptation: IT examples / M. Mitchell Waldrop -- What could be -- Cassandra vs. Pollyanna : a debate between James Kurth and Gregg Easterbrook -- Global discontinuities : a discussion with Owen Harries, Itamar Rabinovich, Niall Ferguson, and Scott Barrett -- American scenarios -- A discussion with Walter Russell Mead, Eliot Cohen, Ruth Wedgwood, Anne Applebaum, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Josef Joffe, Peter Schwartz, and Francis Fukuyama -- Afterword / Francis Fukuyama -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index
    Note: "An American Interest Book , Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index , Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL , Electronic reproduction , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780815729907
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0815729901
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Blindside Washington, D.C : Brookings Institution Press, ©2007
    Language: English
    URL: Volltext
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    Author information: Fukuyama, Francis 1952-
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