Blindside : how to anticipate forcing events and wild cards in global politics /

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Imprint:Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 198 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11155520
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Other uniform titles:American interest.
Other authors / contributors:Fukuyama, Francis, editor.
ISBN:9780815729891
0815729898
1281029637
9781281029638
9780815729907
0815729901
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Notes:"An American Interest Book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index.
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Summary:"Focuses on developing analytical tools to anticipate and manage low-probability events. Addresses psychological and institutional obstacles preventing planning for low-probability tragedies and allocating necessary resources. Pinpoints failures---institutional and personal---that allowed events to surprise leaders and examines philosophies and methodologies of forecasting. Discusses low-probability, high-impact contingencies in various sectors"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:Print version: Blindside. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2007 9780815729907 0815729901