The emergence of noopolitik toward an American information strategy

Strategy, at its best, knits together ends and means, no matter how various and disparate, into a cohesive pattern. In the case of a U.S. information strategy, this requires balancing the need to guard and secure access to many informational capabilities and resources, with the opportunity to achiev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arquilla, John (-)
Corporate Authors: United States. Dept. of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense (-), National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
Other Authors: Ronfeldt, David F.
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Santa Monica, CA : Rand c1999.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427811406719
Table of Contents:
  • COVER; PREFACE; FIGURE; TABLES; SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter One - WHITHER "INFORMATION STRATEGY"?; Chapter Two - RECOGNITION OF THE NOOSPHERE; WHY "INFORMATION" MATTERS; Chapter Three - EMERGENCE OF NOOPOLITIK; GRAND STRATEGIC SHIFTS AT THE TURN OF THECENTURY; FROM REALPOLITIK TO NOOPOLITIK-A COMPARISON OF THE PARADIGMS; NOOPOLITIK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE; FOSTERING NOOPOLITIK: SOME GUIDELINES AND TASKS; Chapter Four - INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND CONFLICT; INFORMATION STRATEGY AND GLOBAL COOPERATION; INFORMATION STRATEGY IN CRISIS AND CONFLICT; Chapter Five - MOVING AHEAD; A NEW TURN OF MIND; U.S. HEGEMONY REQUIRED TO CONSOLIDATE THE NOOSPHERE?; BIBLIOGRAPHY