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Strategische Planung der Transformation von Produktionsstandorten energieintensiver Industrieunternehmen: Dargestellt am Beispiel der Primärstahlherstellung (Produktion und Logistik)
by Yannik GraupnerYannik Graupner untersucht Fragestellungen zur Transformation energieintensiver Industrieunternehmen. Hierzu entwickelt er ein neuartiges Entscheidungsunterstützungswerkzeug zur Bewertung und Gestaltung von Transformationspfaden einzelner Produktionsstandorte. Dieses basiert auf einer Investitions- und Kostenrechnung sowie einer Ökobilanzierung, die auf einer aktivitätsanalytischen Modellierung von Produktionsprozessen aufbauen. Zur Gestaltung der Transformation, auch unter Berücksichtigung der Mechanismen des Europäischen Emissionshandels, entwickelt er ein mathematisches Optimierungsmodell. Durch Anwendung des Entscheidungsunterstützungswerkzeugs innerhalb einer Fallstudie aus der Stahlindustrie werden Erkenntnisse hinsichtlich der Auswirkungen alternativer Produktionsverfahren sowie des Einflusses externer Rahmenbedingungen auf die Transformation gewonnen. Auf Basis dessen leitet er Handlungsempfehlungen für die Stahlindustrie und Politik ab.
Strategische Politische Kommunikation im digitalen Wandel: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven Auf Ein Dynamisches Forschungsfeld
by Michael Oswald Michael JohannDie Digitalisierung hat in den vergangenen Jahren sowohl die Kommunikationsroutinen als auch die Agenden von politischen Akteuren nachhaltig verändert. Einerseits hat der Medienwandel neue Möglichkeiten zur politischen Partizipation und Interaktion hervorgebracht. Andererseits werden digitale Phänomene wie Fake News oder Hassrede von politischen Akteuren instrumentalisiert, um strategische Ziele durchzusetzen. Inwieweit die sozialen Medien dabei zu Echokammern der Nutzer werden, ist umstritten. An einem scheinbaren Siedepunkt der Debatte zum Medienwandel gibt dieser Sammelband einen Überblick über die Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf die strategische Politische Kommunikation. Anhand aktueller Untersuchungen werden dabei politik- und kommunikationswissenschaftliche Perspektiven zu einer interdisziplinären Bestandsaufnahme zusammengeführt. Der Inhalt• Kommunikationsstrukturen im Wandel• Social-Media-Kommunikation im US-Wahlkampf 2016• Digitale Strategien politischer Akteure• Kommunikations- und Kampagnenmanagement• Politische Partizipation online und offlineDie Zielgruppen• Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaftler• Politik-Journalisten• Politikberater und -strategen• Politische AkteureDie HerausgeberDr. Michael Oswald ist Akademischer Rat am Lehrstuhl für Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Passau, Associate Research Fellow und Lehrbeauftragter am John F. Kennedy Institut, Faculty-Member bei CIFE (Int. Zentrum für europäische Bildung) und bei Nautilus Politikberatung.Michael Johann ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Computervermittelte Kommunikation an der Universität Passau.
Strategischer Wettbewerb im Weltraum: Politik, Recht, Sicherheit und Wirtschaft im All (Sicherheit, Strategie & Innovation)
by Enrico Fels Antje Nötzold Andrea Rotter Moritz BrakeDer Sammelband nimmt erstmalig seit Ende des Kalten Krieges für den deutschsprachigen Raum eine komprimierte Bestandsaufnahme der aktuellen Aktivitäten, rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen, politischen und militärischen Konfliktlinien und Kooperationsräume sowie weiterführender Trends und Herausforderungen im Weltraum vor. Dabei werden zum einen die rechtlichen, militärischen, wirtschaftlichen und technologischen Herausforderungen des Bedeutungszuwachses dieses strategisch gewichtigen Raumes analysiert. Zum anderen werden Handlungsfähigkeit und -bedarf ausgewählter Weltraummächte, ihre Kooperationsmöglichkeiten und Konfliktpotenziale sowie der internationale politische Regulierungsbedarf herausgearbeitet und darauf aufbauend politische Handlungsempfehlungen dargelegt.„Eine hervorragend gelungene Bestandsaufnahme der umfassenden Bedeutung des Weltraums.“ Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Karl Kaiser, Harvard University
Strategisches Framing: Eine Einführung
by Michael OswaldIn der Politischen Kommunikation sind Frames allgegenwärtig, da die politische Realität oft spezifisch konstruiert wird. Kommunikatoren setzen dabei ihre Information in einen bestimmten Deutungsrahmen, um gewisse Stimmungen zu verbreiten. Sie ‚framen‘ damit das Thema gezielt und wollen so die Debatte um die jeweilige Angelegenheit leiten oder zumindest mitbestimmen. Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine Einführung in das Verständnis von Frames und Framing-Strategien, es liefert eine Übersicht der Inhalte der vielfältigen und breitgefächerten Framing-Forschung sowie eine Grundlage für das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten mit Frames.
Strategisches Framing: Eine Einführung
by Michael OswaldIn der Politischen Kommunikation sind Framings allgegenwärtig. Zum einen entstehen sie unwillkürlich, da Themen stets in einer spezifischen Perspektive dargestellt werden. Zum anderen wird die politische Realität auch oft konstruiert. Kommunikatoren setzen dabei ihre Information in einen bestimmten Deutungsrahmen, sie ‚framen‘ das Thema also gezielt und wollen so die Debatte um die jeweilige Angelegenheit leiten oder zumindest mitbestimmen. Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine Einführung in das Verständnis von Frames und Framing-Strategien. Es liefert einen Abriss über die vielfältige und breitgefächerte Framing-Forschung sowie eine Grundlage für das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten mit Frames. Für die 2. Auflage wurde das Buch grundlegend überarbeitet und aktualisiert.
Strategisches Management und wirkungsorientierte Steuerung in Kommunen
by Jens WeißDie Beiträge des Bandes stellen Grundlagen aus den Bereichen Verwaltungsmanagement und Verwaltungsinformatik sowie Ergebnisse der empirischen Forschung zum strategischen Management in kleinen und mittleren Kommunen dar. Fallbeispiele aus Kommunen in Österreich, Italien, der Schweiz, der Slowakei und Deutschland zeigen praktizierte Managementsysteme, Einführungsprozesse und Aspekte der informationstechnischen Unterstützung.
Strategizing against Sweatshops: The Global Economy, Student Activism, and Worker Empowerment
by Matthew S. WilliamsFor the past few decades, the U.S. anti-sweatshop movement was bolstered by actions from American college students. United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) effectively advanced the cause of workers’ rights in sweatshops around the world. Strategizing against Sweatshops chronicles the evolution of student activism and presents an innovative model of how college campuses are a critical site for the advancement of global social justice. Matthew Williams shows how USAS targeted apparel companies outsourcing production to sweatshop factories with weak or non-existent unions. USAS did so by developing a campaign that would support workers organizing by leveraging their college’s partnerships with global apparel firms like Nike and Adidas to abide by pro-labor codes of conduct. Strategizing against Sweatshops exemplifies how organizations and actors cooperate across a movement to formulate a coherent strategy responsive to the conditions in their social environment. Williams also provides a model of political opportunity structure to show how social context shapes the chances of a movement’s success—and how movements can change that political opportunity structure in turn. Ultimately, he shows why progressive student activism remains important.
Strategy Before Clausewitz: Linking Warfare and Statecraft, 1400-1830 (Cass Military Studies)
by Beatrice HeuserThis collection of essays combines historical research with cutting-edge strategic analysis and makes a significant contribution to the study of the early history of strategic thinking. There is a debate as to whether strategy in its modern definition existed before Napoleon and Clausewitz. The case studies featured in this book show that strategic thinking did indeed exist before the last century, and that there was strategy making, even if there was no commonly agreed word for it. The volume uses a variety of approaches. First, it explores the strategy making of three monarchs whose biographers have claimed to have identified strategic reasoning in their warfare: Edward III of England, Philip II of Spain and Louis XIV of France. The book then analyses a number of famous strategic thinkers and practitioners, including Christine de Pizan, Lazarus Schwendi, Matthew Sutcliffe, Raimondo Montecuccoli and Count Guibert, concluding with the ideas that Clausewitz derived from other authors. Several chapters deal with reflections on naval strategy long thought not to have existed before the nineteenth century. Combining in-depth historical documentary research with strategic analysis, the book illustrates that despite social, economic, political, cultural and linguistic differences, our forebears connected warfare and the aims and considerations of statecraft just as we do today. This book will be of great interest to students of strategic history and theory, military history and IR in general.
Strategy In Nato
by Liselotte OdgaardThis edited volume addresses the challenges and opportunities facing NATO post-2014, applying an original approach to strategy that will produce fresh insights into this hot topic within the international security community.
Strategy and Ethnocentrism (Routledge Revivals)
by Ken BoothKen Booth’s study, first published in 1979, investigates the way in which cultural distortions have affected the theory and execution of strategy. Its aim is to illustrate the importance of ethnocentrism in all areas of the subject, to follow through its implications and to suggest approaches to the different problems it poses. Insights are offered into the character of a number of important issues in Cold War international politics, including the superpower arms race, détente, the Middle Eastern crisis, the Soviet arms build-up and the SALT talks. In light of the cost of modern warfare, it is all the more important to avoid strategic failures in the future. Strategy and Ethnocentrism aims to alert students of military and strategic studies to some ways of minimising the risks of failure in an age when war is increasingly characterised by racial, cultural and religious conflict.
Strategy and Grand Strategy (Adelphi series)
by Joshua RovnerWartime leaders should understand the link between violent means and political ends. They should also have a sense of how strategic decisions will affect the post-war peace. Yet they often fail to make these connections. Mistaking strategy for grand strategy, or misunderstanding the relationship between them, can frustrate soldiers and statesmen alike. Sometimes it can lead to national ruin. In this Adelphi book, Joshua Rovner offers a lucid analysis of strategy (a theory of victory) and grand strategy (a theory of security). He demonstrates vividly how these concepts interact in case studies from antiquity to the present, and he describes the implications for war and peace at a time of extraordinary technological change. Rovner’s work will prove indispensable to policymakers, scholars and anyone seeking to grasp these essential but often misunderstood concepts.
Strategy and History: Essays on Theory and Practice (Strategy and History)
by Colin S. GrayStrategy and History comprises a selection of Professor Gray's key contributions to strategic debate over the past thirty years. These essays have been selected both because they had significant messages for contemporary controversies, and because they have some continuing relevance for today and the future. Each essay in this book is really about strategy in the modern world, and reflects the many dimensions of this complex subject. This book covers a wide range of subjects and historical events, but there are key issues covered throughout: being strategic the consequences of actions a respect for Clausewitz’s theory of war historical dependency the importance of geography being critical of enthusiasm for technology over human factors the primacy of politics. This important publication provides an invaluable insight into the development of strategic studies over the past 30 years from one of the world's leading theorists and practitioners of the subject. The book will be of great interest to all students and analysts of strategy and international studies.
Strategy and Politics
by Colin S. GrayThis book examines the subject of strategy and its relationship with politics. Despite the fact that strategy is always the product of political process, the relationship between the two concepts and their ancillary activities has scarcely been touched by scholars. This book corrects that serious deficiency, and explains the high relevance of political factors for matters of general defence. Each chapter aims to show how and why strategy and politics interact and how this interaction has had significant consequences historically. Neither strategy nor politics can make sense if considered alone. Strategy requires direction that can only be provided by political process, while politics cannot be implemented without strategy. In summary, this volume will explain: what strategy is (and is not) why strategy is essential what strategy does and how it does it how strategy is made and executed Written by a leading scholar and former practitioner, this book will be essential reading for all students of military strategy, strategic studies, security studies and war and conflict studies.
Strategy and Politics: An Introduction to Game Theory
by Peter C. Ordeshook Emerson NiouStrategy and Politics: An Introduction to Game Theory is designed to introduce students with no background in formal theory to the application of game theory to modeling political processes. This accessible text covers the essential aspects of game theory while keeping the reader constantly in touch with why political science as a whole would benefit from considering this method. Examining the very phenomena that power political machineries—elections, legislative and committee processes, and international conflict, the book attempts to answer fundamental questions about their nature and function in a clear, accessible manner. Included at the end of each chapter is a set of exercises designed to allow students to practice the construction and analysis of political models. Although the text assumes only an elementary-level training in algebra, students who complete a course around this text will be equipped to read nearly all of the professional literature that makes use of game theoretic analysis.
Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific: Global and regional dynamics (Canberra Papers On Strategy And Defence #No. 139)
by Robert Ayson Desmond BallFrom the war on terror to the rise of China, this book unlocks the major strategic themes and security challenges of the early twenty-first century. Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific provides the analytical frameworks needed to make sense of this complex but exciting strategic universe. Offering a unique mix of global strategic thinking and Asia-Pacific security analysis, this book is for readers from Sydney to Seoul who want to put their own local security challenges in a wider regional and global context. It is also for North American and European readers requiring an understanding of the dynamic security developments in the Asia-Pacific region around which so much of global strategy is increasingly based. The really vital questions facing the international community are dealt with here: Why do governments and groups still use armed force? Has warfare really changed in the information age? Why should we be concerned about non-traditional security challenges such as water shortages and the spread of infectious disease? Is a great clash imminent between the United States and China? What are the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula and between India and Pakistan? Can Southeast Asia survive the challenges of transnational terrorism? What does security mean for the Pacific island countries and for Australia and New Zealand? With contributions from leading commentators and analysts, Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific offers a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the field.
Strategy and Strategic Discourse in Turkish Foreign Policy
by Hasan YükselenThis book provides a critical realist analysis of Turkish foreign policy (TFP), covering various periods from the Turkish National Struggle to the contemporary Justice and Development Party Government. It discusses TFP within the critical realist framework, employing the concept of differences in continuity to demonstrate how agency and structure interacted, and how some discourses arose and others failed in the history of the Turkish Republic. The book also applies the concepts of strategy and strategic discourse to reveal how real-world strategic preferences correspond to the narration. Lastly, the author argues that the underlying structural forces have endured, despite Turkey’s persistence in enhancing the agency’s role, ultimately leading to differentiation between “what is spoken” and “what is actualized”.
Strategy and Structure of Japanese Enterprises
by Toyohiro KonoComposed of a series of 12 articles, this work analyzes China's rural reforms. The articles cover such topics as the responsibility system, privatization, industrialization, social conflict, urban-rural relations and rural urbanization.
Strategy and Structure: Studies in Peace Research
by Johan NiezingThis text offers a selection of writings that are more definite versions from past conferences. Including papers from lectures at the Inter-University Centre of Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (course: Theories on Development, Conflict and Peace, 1975 and 1976); from conferences of the VVK (the Belgian-Dutch Association of Peace Researchers) in 1976 and 1977; Chapter V was also a contribution to the 1977 meeting of the Dutch Association for Political Science. Most of the chapters of this book have also been published earlier in one way or another. Chapter II has been published in a Dutch journal, ‘Transactie’ and in a modified English version in the Bulletin of Peace proposals, 1976, 2. Chapter IV appeared in a Dutch journal Tntermediair’, 1974, 1. Chapter V was published originally in the Annals of the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Science of our Brussels University. Chapter VI has its own history: it can be viewed as a very condensed version of a rather extensive study in the Dutch language: ‘Budgetteringssysteem en Bewapeningsproces; een studie over de politieke en polemologische betekenis van PPBS’ (published as Vol. Ill of a series of publications in the Dutch language of our Brussels Polemological Centre).
Strategy and Tactics of the Proletarian Revolution
by V. BystryanskyThe last in a series of books with extended quotes from Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, dealing with the questions of strategy and tactics of the proletarian revolution.
Strategy and the Social Sciences: Issues in Defence Policy
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Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History (Strategy and History)
by Colin GrayIn this volume, Professor Colin Gray develops and applies the theory and scholarship on the allegedly historical practice of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), in order to improve our comprehension of how and why strategy 'works'.The author explores the RMA hypothesis both theoretically and historically. The book argues that the conduct of an RMA has to be examined as a form of strategic behaviour, which means that, of necessity, it must "work" as strategy works. The great RMA debate of the 1990s is reviewed empathetically, though sceptically, by the author, with every major school of thought allowed its day in court.The author presents three historical RMAs as case studies for his argument: those arguably revealed in the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon; in World War I; and in the nuclear age. The focus of his analysis is how these grand RMAs functioned strategically. The conclusions that he draws from these empirical exercises are then applied to help us understand what, indeed, is - and what is not - happening with the much vaunted information-technology-led RMA of today.
Strategy in Action: How School Systems Can Support Powerful Learning and Teaching
by Elizabeth A. City Rachel E. CurtisHow can we systemically improve the quality of classroom instruction and the learning and achievement of students? In an era when isolated examples of excellence are not good enough, we need systems that support improvement and excellence for all. This book describes how systems can effectively engage in this complex, challenging, and crucial work. The authors explore three core competencies of high-performing school systems: (1) understanding what the work is—a deep understanding of the core business of facilitating learning, a vision of what that looks like, and an awareness of where the system is in relation to that vision; (2) knowing how to do the work—a theory of action for improving instruction, a focus on key strategies, and effective alignment of resources; and (3) building the individual and organizational &“habits of mind&” that foster continuous improvement. Each chapter includes examples that illustrate key concepts in action, questions to spur self-assessment in key areas of competence, and tools and resources for building capacity at different levels and stages of development.
Strategy in Asia: The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Security
by Thomas G. Mahnken Dan BlumenthalSome of the United States' greatest challenges over the coming decades are likely to emanate from the Asia-Pacific region. China and India are rising and Militant Islam continues to take root in Pakistan, while nuclear proliferation threatens to continue in fits and starts. If America is to meet these challenges comprehensively, strategists will have to learn more about Asia, and Asian scholars, policymakers, and analysts will need to understand better the enduring and timeless principles of strategy. Based on the premise therefore that the increasing strategic weight of the Asia-Pacific region warrants greater attention from both scholars and practitioners alike, Strategy in Asia: The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Security aims to marry the fields of strategic studies and Asian studies in order to help academics and practitioners to begin addressing these challenges. The book uses the lenses of geography, culture, and economics to examine in depth the strategic context that Asia presents to the major nations of the region#151;including the U. S. as a Pacific nation#151;and the strategic scenarios that may well play out in the region in the near future. Specific attention is paid to Asia as a warfighting environment, and to the warfighting traditions and current postures of the major nations.
Strategy in Information and Influence Campaigns: How Policy Advocates, Social Movements, Insurgent Groups, Corporations, Governments and Others Get What They Want
by Jarol B. ManheimInformation and influence campaigns are a particularly cogent example of the broader phenomenon we now term strategic political communication. If we think of political communication as encompassing the creation, distribution, control, use, processing and effects of information as a political resource, then we can characterize strategic political communication as the purposeful management of such information to achieve a stated objective based on the science of individual, organizational, and governmental decision-making. IICs are more or less centralized, highly structured, systematic, and carefully managed efforts to do just that.Strategy in Information and Influence Campaigns sets out in comprehensive detail the underlying assumptions, unifying strategy, and panoply of tactics of the IIC, both from the perspective of the protagonist who initiates the action and from that of the target who must defend against it. Jarol Manheim’s forward-looking, broad, and systematic analysis is a must-have resource for scholars and students of political and strategic communication, as well as practitioners in both the public and private sectors.
Strategy in the 21st Century: The Continuing Relevance of Carl von Clausewitz
by Lennart SouchonThis book presents a detailed discussion of Clausewitz's principal lines of thought and methods of implementation. It elaborates on his main objective of laying a foundation for the education of up-and-coming creative, knowledgeable and experienced future leaders. The book encourages reflection and study in strategic thinking in order to transform knowledge into genuine capability. The book explores the question of what a twenty-first-century decision-maker can learn from these strategic lines of thought. It bridges the gap between philosophical theory and strategic interaction in conflicts with an equal opponent. Readers learn to understand and employ the clash of wills, attack and defence, and friction, and in essence the necessary virtues of a strategic commander.The findings presented help to identify the essential features in complex decision-making situations and developing possible courses of strategic action from a holistic standpoint. As such, the book is a must read for strategists, business practitioners, and scholars of political leadership and management interested in a better understanding of strategy and decision-making.