The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World Audiobook (Free)

In 1961, Thomas Schelling’s The Strategy of Issue used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet relationship and establish the foundation of worldwide relations for all of those other Cold War. Right now, Anne-Marie Slaughter-one of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers from 2009 to 2012, as well as the 1st female to serve as movie director of the State Department Office of Plan Planning-applies network theory to build up a new set of approaches for the post-Cold War world. While chessboard-style competitive interactions still exist-U.S.-Iranian relations, for example-many additional situations demand that we look not at specific entities but at their links to one another. We have to learn to understand, shape, and build on those contacts.

Concise and accessible, predicated on real-world circumstances, on the lucid knowledge of network technology, and on a definite taxonomy of strategies, this will be a go-to source for anyone buying new way to take into account strategy in politics or business.