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Rethinking Risk in National Security: Lessons of the Financial Crisis for Risk Management
Michael J. Mazarr
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Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; JPS; JW; KCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 240 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.
This book examines the role of risk management in the recent financial crisis and applies lessons from there to the national security realm. It rethinks the way risk contributes to strategy, with insights relevant to practitioners and scholars in national security as well as business. Over the past few years, the concept of risk has become one of the most commonly discussed issues in national security planning. And yet the experiences of the 2007-2008 financial crisis demonstrated critical limitations in institutional efforts to control risk. The most elaborate and complex risk procedures could not cure skewed incentives, cognitive biases, groupthink, ... Read more
This book examines the role of risk management in the recent financial crisis and applies lessons from there to the national security realm. It rethinks the way risk contributes to strategy, with insights relevant to practitioners and scholars in national security as well as business. Over the past few years, the concept of risk has become one of the most commonly discussed issues in national security planning. And yet the experiences of the 2007-2008 financial crisis demonstrated critical limitations in institutional efforts to control risk. The most elaborate and complex risk procedures could not cure skewed incentives, cognitive biases, groupthink, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
415g
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349948871
SKU
V9781349948871
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About Michael J. Mazarr
Michael J. Mazarr is a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, USA. The author of 12 books, he has been a professor and dean at the National War College, USA, a special assistant to the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), USA, and a defense ... Read more
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