Strategy and Defense Policy for Small States: Problems and Prospects

Contents
Preface
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction Towards a Strategic Studies for Small States
	Defining Strategic Studies
	Towards a Strategic Studies for Small States
	Endnotes
Chapter 1 Geopolitics, Geostrategy, and Defense Policy
	Geopolitics
	Geostrategy
	Geopolitics and Geostrategy—The Basis of Defense Policy and Strategy
	Conclusions
	Endnotes
Chapter 2 Strategic Culture and Strategy
	Conceptualising Strategic Culture
	Know Yourself, Know the Enemy—Strategic Culture as the Foundation of Policy and Strategy
	Tendencies, not Decision—Strategic Culture, Defense Policy and Strategy
	Conclusion
	Endnotes
Chapter 3 Singapore’s Military History 2.0
	Singapore Story 1.0: The Vulnerability-Survival Strand
	Beyond the Vulnerability-Survival Narrative
	A Usable Past in Singapore’s PMET and Strategic Studies
	Conclusion
	Endnotes
Chapter 4 Military Modernization in the 21st Century Problems and Prospects for Small Military Organizations
	The Concept of the Arms Dynamic
	The Centrality of Technological Change
	Matching New Technologies with New Techniques
	Maintaining the Relevance of the Military Organization
	Conclusion
	Endnotes
Chapter 5 The Changing Character of War in the 21st Century Challenges for Strategic Planning
	Information Proliferation and the Politics of Identity
	Foreign Fighters and Lone Wolves as New Strategic Actors
	Towards a New Metaphor of War in the 21st Century
	The Implications for Strategy
	Endnotes
Chapter 6 Military Engagement in Disaster Response Policies, Interests and Issues
	Conceptualizing Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR)
	Pay-offs and Trade Offs: An Analytical Framework
	Evolution of Global Humanitarian Operational Environment
	Civil-Military Coordination
	Enablers—Multilateral and Bilateral Environment
	Conclusion/Emerging Issues
	Endnotes
Chapter 7 Peace Operations and Military Organizations Between Internationalism and Statism
	Hammarskjöld’s Dilemma
	Operational and Organizational Challenges
	Political and Strategic Challenges
	Conclusion
	Endnotes
Index