The Art of Creating Power

The Art of Creating Power explores the intellectual thought and wider impact -- on military affairs, politics and the universities -- of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on strategy, conflict and international politics. In this volume, senior scholars of international relations and military history trace the long trajectory of Freedman's career, examining his scholarly contribution to a whole host of areas from nuclear strategy to US foreign policy via terrorism, the Falklands War, and Iraq.Individually, these essays provide fascinating and innovative insights into strategy, contemporary defence and foreign policy, and conflict. Taken together, however, they are greater than the sum of their parts as they both reflect and explore the theoretical approach adopted and taught by Freedman - one that has made him one of the great intellectual figures in the canon of international politics, strategy and war.Throughout his professional life, Freedman explored many of the uncertainties that plague our highly unstable world. But as conflicts continue to erupt across the globe, it seems we may be entering an even more precarious and uncertain era. There could hardly be a better time than today to gain a deeper understanding of Freedman's strategic insights.

PrefaceForeword Sir Michael HowardAbout the ContributorsIntroduction James Gow and Benedict WilkinsonPART 1STRATEGY AND DETERRENCE1. Strategic Theory as an Intellectual System Robert Ayson2. Uncomfortable Visions: The Rise and Decline of the Idea ofLimited War Jan Willem Honig3. Reflections on Lawrence Freedman's 'Deterrence'Patrick M. Morgan4. Deterrence and Democracy: Reflections on Americanpost-9/11 Homeland Security Richard A. FalkenrathPART 2ETHICS AND PRINCIPLES5. Ethics in Asymmetrical Warfare Mervyn Frost6. The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of 'Just War': Thinking fromCicero to Chicago Beatrice Heuser7. Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from the Past TwoDecades Richard Caplanvi8. 'Realism as an Unsentimental Intellectual Temper': LawrenceFreedman and the New Interventionism Mats BerdalPART 3HISTORY AND POLICY9. Essence of Indecision: Coup Scripts, Ngo Dinh Diem, andthe Kennedy Administration Jeffrey H. Michaels10. The Operational Legacy of the FalklandsWar Julian Thompson11. The Iraq Syndrome Revisited: America's Use of ForceDebate under Obama David Hastings Dunn12. Britain's Journey to a National Security Approach and theEvolution of a Defence Academy John GearsonPART 4THEORY13. Trust and International Relations Richard Ned Lebow14. The Essence of Strategy: Constructivist Realism and NecessityJames Gow15. Freedman and Machiavelli Philip Bobbitt16. Strategic Scripts and Nuclear DisarmamentMatthew Harries and Benedict WilkinsonPART 5CONTEMPLATIONS17. Confessions of a Premature ConstructivistLawrence Freedman18. Observations on Whitehall and Academia Sir David Omand19. Reflections on the Freedman School James Gow20. Conclusion James Gow and Benedict WilkinsonNotesSelect BibliographyIndex