Table:  Summary of Monographs

 Abstracts for the monographs, in alphabetical order by title, follow.

Analyzing and Building National and International Policy  (Lanham: Lexington, 2002.)

This book presents a theory that allows for the analysis of national policy, followed by four case studies of policy set in a single state (France, nuclear policy, 1955-1970), bilateral context for a policy (North Korea’s juche, South Korea’s Nordpolitik, 1990-2000), the multilateral setting of policy (Canada and the northeast Pacific, 1990-2000), and finally the policy setting of a single state dealing with a group of states (Czech Republic and NATO 1994-2000.  This book proposes a method for constructing a framework of analysis for policy, constructs that framework according the criteria and process outlines, and investigates all known types of cases for national policy. 

Bioterrorism and Health and Medical Services Administration (New York:  Dekker, forthcoming.)

This book examines how to manage and control changes in health services to cope with an increased threat of bioterrorism.  It provides all the details of the method, including a template for adapting or refining the theory and a step-by-step process so that even the layperson can use the method effectively.  It also provides a full set of semi-fictional case studies showing how to cope with bioterrorism at various levels.  The intended audience is composed of students of health administration, students in the regulated health professions, health administrators, health professionals, hospital and clinic managers, patient and other pressure groups, governments, students of terrorism and/or low intensity conflict, organizations concerned with national and international security.  It enters the field along with a number of distinguished works.  Science And Technology Of Terrorism And Counterterrorism, Tushar K. Ghosh et al., eds. (New York : Marcel Dekker, 2002.) discusses the technological innovatiosn in biological, chemical and nuclear terrorism.  Henderson, Thomas and O'Toole's Bioterrorism : Guidelines For Medical And Public Health Management (American Medical Association Press , 2002) addresses primarily issues for physicians. Roland Moreau's La menace terroriste NBC : nucléaire, biologique, chimique: comment faire face et se protéger (Monaco: Rocher, 2002) discusses the protection against nuclear, biological and chemical terrosism.  Alexander and Hoenig's Super Terrorism : Biological, Chemical, And Nuclear (Ardsley, NY : Transnational Publishers, 2001) is equally broad.   Klaus Urban's Das heisse Erbe des Kalten Krieges : Hinterlassenschaften und Hinterbliebene (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2000) covers more the radioactive waste disposal during the Cold War than a subject more germane to the present manuscript.  On the other hand, at least 50 books in health services administration are published each year. Typical are the following: Dowding and Barr’s Managing in healthcare (Prentice Hall, 2001) was developed primarily for nurses and midwives in the UK, rather than to the wider audience of  health professionals and health administrators. Couto and Eken’s To give their gifts (Vanderbilt UP, 2002) provides case studies of community health services in the US in ethnically diverse circumstances. Leebov and Scott’s The indispensable health care manager (Jossey-Bass, 2002) provides managers in the field a guide to thriving in the current, highly competitive health care management environment. Guidance provided includes ten mindset or role shifts that are keys to management survival, self-assessment devices for helping a manager determine how he or she may benefit. There are also a large number of readers, either of cases or of issues. Lee Craven’s Transforming the NHS (Prentice Hall, 2002) focuses on the particular experience of change, and the lessons learned, rather than on a generic process of change for health services administration, as does my book.  The present book present the additional advantage of providing tools for change that can be used by anyone, inside or outside the health care system, at any level and in a unit of any size.  It also provides everyone in a particular organization with a common set of ideas and a common vocabulary.

Campaign Strategy (New York: Nova, forthcoming.)

This book focuses on a methodology allowing political operatives, candidates, party members and campaign team members to craft their own strategies, to analyze the significance of events during an election campaign, and to design their tactical or strategic responses to them.  It examines how to identify which events have significance, how to assess their potential consequences and how to craft a response, in the context of an electoral campaign in a liberal democracy.  It provides all the details of the method, including a template for adapting or refining the theory and a step-by-step process so that even the layperson can use the method effectively.  It provides an analysis of Clinton’s first campaign for the presidential nomination as an illustration.  It is intended for students of political management, political operatives, political party members, candidates for elected office, and students of electoral politics at the graduate and undergraduate level.  It joins a field which already includes Electoral Strategies And Political Marketing, by Bowler and Farrell (St. Martin's, 1992), which is already ten years old, and Marjorie Hershey's The Making Of Campaign Strategy (Lexington, 1974) and Political Marketing : An Approach To Campaign Strategy, by Gary Mauser (Praeger, 1983), which are also very much out of date.

More Strategic Activism (New York: Nova, forthcoming)

This book provides supplementary exercises teachers and students engaged inaction towards getting health care for marginalized groups such as women, remote communities, persons with chronic health problems, minorities and the poor; provides classroom exercises, assignments, grading schemes, list of resources, timetable for a 12 week course, workshops on strategic planning, instructions for the facilitator of exercises and workshops.  Books published about activism provide practical advice about how to lobby your congressman, but not whether you should be lobbying a congressman or holding a demonstration.  This book would explain how to pick your tactics, and how to develop an effective strategy.  Political science tends to be either empirical or theoretical: this book moves from the theory to the practice in a single volume.  Other works fall in one of two categories: (1) books addressing only one aspect of political strategy: Charles Miller’s Lobbying:  Understanding the Corridors of Power (Blackwell, 1990) addresses the research and analysis necessary to political strategies for lobbying;  William Coplin and Michael O’Leary’s Effective Participation in Government (Policy Associates, 1988) provided worksheets for non-professional lobbyists, but less than a dozen typescript pages of explanatory text;  (2) books which proposed a limited number of strategies for lobbyists of a particular branch of government: Berry’s book could fall into this category.  Princeton University Press published the intriguingly-titled Outside Lobbying: Public Opinion and Interest Group Strategies, an edited collection of significant interest but similarly addressing such issues as statistics (Ken Kollman) rather than political strategies themselves.  If lobbying the administrative government, there is David Osborne and Peter Platrik’s Banishing Bureaucracy (Addison Wesley, 1991), who propose five strategies for ‘reinventing government,’ but do not discuss how to develop strategies.  Willard  Richan’s Lobbying for Social Change (Haworth, 1996) proposes strategies of argument for lobbyists. 

NATO and Eastern Europe After 2000 (Huntingdon: Nova, 2001)

This book examines NATO=s future relations with Eastern Europe, specifically two new member states, Poland and the Czech Republic, and two aspiring member states, Bulgaria and Romania.  Specifically, it looks at how NATO=s new defense concept will affect those future relations, and it looks at how the culture of each country will affect its future relations with NATO.  The book also examines in less detail how the four countries will interact with each other.  This book presents the last of a long series of case studies in International Relations that look at the role of culture in defense and security.  Previous case studies included single states, bilateral relations, and multilateral relations.  The present book looks at international organizations.  In the last ten years, there have been about 100 books published on NATO after the Cold War.  The bulk of these books have addressed (1)  NATO-US relations, (2) NATO relations with Western Europe, and (3) NATO=s response to the Yugoslav crisis and the Balkans.  The books about NATO and Eastern or Central Europe are actually very few: the most important ones considered whether NATO should enlarge, like Bebler=s Challenge of NATO Enlargement (1999).  Since enlargement has occurred, there have been two books,  Smith and Timmins Building a Bigger Europe (2000), and Grayson=s Strange Bedfellows: NATO Marches East (1999).  Michta edited a collection about America=s New Allies: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in NATO (1999). None of them propose the fundamental research proposed in the present book, and none of them have presented a comprehensive set of case studies.

Path to Peace (New York:  Nova, forthcoming).  

This book examines how to identify which events have international significance, how to assess their potential consequences and how to craft a response.  It provides all the details of the method, including a template for adapting or refining the theory and a step-by step process so that even the layperson can use the method effectively.  It came out of my collaboration with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada.  It builds on a theory and set of case studies proposed in three earlier books. Its intended audience includesstudents of international relations, scholars of international relations, officials of foreign and defense ministries, NGO’s, the military; I have used it as a textbook for third year students of political science.  It enters the lists with other books on the analysis of international relations.  The classics include Kenneth Waltz, Snyder and Diesing, and a number of others.  None of these, however, provide a step-by-step approach.  From a theoretical standpoint, the closest book is Charnay’s, Stratégie générative (1990), not published in English to my knowledge, and Maoz’s National Choices and International Processes (1986). 

Political Strategy and Tactics (New York: Nova, 2003).

This book presents a  model of political strategy in the first chapter, followed by a chapter on each step of political strategy with illustrations drawn from history, empirical research and experience of individuals or groups who have been taught political strategy; there is also a series of worksheets for the reader to strategize as s/he proceeds.  Books published more recently have either proposed two or three strategies for very specific situations, like lobbying or campaigning, or have addressed only one step of the strategy process.  This book investigates how strategies are developed and implemented in politics generally, not just in lobbying.  It does not use a rational choice approach, where the assumption of constant rationality on the part of decision-makers has been consistently (and correctly) criticized.   Examples in the book are drawn from a variety of contexts, applicable to liberal democracies generally.  Other books in the same category either address only one aspect of political strategy, or propose a limited number of strategies for lobbyists of a particular branch of government.  Books on strategy are usually either military or business.  In politics, there are political biographies, books on specific social movements or interest groups, books on specific political parties, and books on international crises and war.  In business, they revolve on strategic decision-making and planning.

Prescription for Change (New York: Nova, forthcoming.)

This book examines how to identify which events have significance, how to assess their potential consequences and how to craft a response, in the context of health management and administration.  It provides all the details theory and a step-by-step process so that even the layperson can use the method effectively.  It could be used by students of health administration, students in the regulated health professions, health administrators, health professionals, hospital and clinic managers, patient and other pressure groups.  At least 50 books in health services administration are published each year. Typically there are developed primarily for a particular profession in a particular country, rather than to the wider audience of  health professionals and health administrators. There are also a large number of readers, either of cases or of issues. Typical is Rosemary Rushmer’s Organisation development in health care  (Ashgate, 2002) whose papers include cooperative working arrangements, and how they can best be used with staff to encourage cooperation, and Tavakili and Malke’s Quality in health care (Ashgate, 2001). There are also books more specialized on certain aspects, such as McSherry, Pearce and Tingle’s Clinical governance (Blackwell Science, 2002). The closest related work overall would be Stewart Gabel’s Leaders and healthcare organizational change (Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2001), which describes stages that organizations go through as they move rapidly to adopt new and often unwanted changes. Lee Craven’s Transforming the NHS (Prentice Hall, 2002) focuses on the particular experience of change, and the lessons learned, rather than on a generic process of change for health services administration, as does my book.  The present book present the additional advantage of providing tools for change that can be used by anyone, inside or outside the health care system, at any level and in a unit of any size.  It also provides everyone in a particular organization with a common set of ideas and a common vocabulary.

Security for the Pacific Century (Huntingdon: Nova, 2002).

This book examines the relations among the East Pacific 2 + 4:  China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and the US and Russia.  In addition to these, Taiwan is considered.  It examines the future relations, both bi- and multilateral, of the countries.  The intended audience is made up of professors of International Relations; the security and intelligence community; graduate students in International Security; students of the East Pacific.  From a theoretical standpoint, the closest book is Charnay=s, Stratégie générative (1990), not published in English to my knowledge, and Maoz=s National Choices and International Processes (1986).  There is no shortage of  recent books on the Pacific.  There have been a few theoretical investigations like Snyder=s Contemporary Security and Strategy (1997), and Booth=s New Security Agenda (1998).  None of them propose the fundamental research proposed in the present book, and none of them have presented a comprehensive set of case studies.

Strategic Activism (New York: Nova, 2002).

Using feminist popular education principles, provides a road map for teacher and students engaged in social action, political action and community organizing; provides a full theory of strategy, then moves right through the practical applications of the theory, including: principles of effective strategy, how to select appropriate tactics, method of analyzing formal and informal power structures; how to analyze the decision-makers and the opposition; provides classroom exercises, assignments, grading schemes, list of resources, timetable for a 12 week course, workshops on strategic planning, instructions for the facilitator of exercises and workshops; list of resources (videos, guests, readings). Books published about activism provide practical advice about how to lobby your congressman, but not whether you should be lobbying a congressman or holding a demonstration.  This book would explain how to pick your tactics, and how to develop an effective strategy.  Political science tends to be either empirical or theoretical: this book moves from the theory to the practice in a single volume.

Strategic Research (full draft)

This book focuses on a methodology allowing research personnel and supervisors, and research oriented organizations such as universities and corporations to craft their own strategies, to analyze the significance of events during a research program or project, and to design their tactical or strategic responses to them.  It examines how to identify which events have significance, how to assess their potential consequences and how to craft a response.  It provides all the details of the method, including a template for adapting or refining the theory and a step-by-step process so that even the layperson can use the method effectively.  It is intended for researchers, research teams, institutions conducting research, granting bodies and foundations, graduate students in methodology courses, undergraduate students in professional programs enrolled in methodology courses.  Most other books specialize in a family of disciplines, such as social or exact sciences.  The proposed manuscript cuts across all disciplines.  There are at least 20 books a year published about research methodologies –evidently graduate research training is big business.  The competing works would include:  Jennifer Mason’s Qualitative Researching (Sage, 2002), which in its second edition covers problem selection and design, then qualitative methods (her use of the term strategy is indistinguishable from research program); John Mason’s intringuingly titled Discipline of Noticing (Routledge Falmer, 2002), which is geared to education research but would have some broader application for the self-reflective researcher; Tashakkori and Teddlie’s Handbook Of Mixed Methods In Social & Behavioral Research (Sage, 2003), which focuses on a broad spectrum of methods but without any notion of problem selection or analysis; Bruce Berg’s Qualitative Research Methods For The Social Sciences (Allyn and Bacon, 2001) on the one hand and John Creswell’s Research Design (Sage again, 2003) on the other, which would address together the issues addressed in a single volume in my book.  There are a number of others.

Strategy and Ethnic Conflict (Westport:  Praeger, 2002).

This book develops a methodology specific to issues of international security and ethnic considerations.  It proposes a cogent theory of how strategy and national values interact, and how this determines the international posture of states with respect to not only defense, but also foreign policy and international trade.  It provides a detailed if historical case study of France=s decision to develop and maintain a nuclear arsenal.  From a theoretical standpoint, the closest book is Charnay=s, Stratégie générative (1990), not published in English to my knowledge, and Maoz=s National Choices and International Processes (1986).  There is no shortage of  recent books on culture and strategy, usually edited collections like Krause=s Culture and Strategy (1999).  There have been a few theoretical investigations like Snyder=s Contemporary Security and Strategy (1997), and Booth=s New Security Agenda (1998).  None of them propose the fundamental research proposed in the present book.

Strategy for Individuals (New York: Nova, 2002).

This book provides a full set of case studies of individuals using strategy to achieve their goals; the case studies cover strategies used by individuals dealing with phenomena, another individual, a sub-national group, an international group, a state, and a group of states.  The case studies include:  Kevin Mitnick, a notorious hacker; a woman combating sexual harassment in her workplace; Bill Clinton’s obtaining the Democratic nomination for President for the first time; Rupert Murdoch’s communications empire; Mahatma Gandhi’s campaign for Indian independence; and Dag Hammarskold’s relations with the United Nations Organization.  Books about strategy usually apply it to business or to international security.  I am presently the only author working on applications of strategy using military theory and developing them for use by the layperson.  The most common application of strategy would be in activism or in lobbying.  Other books published about activism provide practical advice about how to lobby your congressman, but not examples of how other people have used strategy. 

Systemic Strategy: Case Studies (full draft)

This book provides a full set of case studies of groups operating in systems using strategy to achieve their goals; the case studies cover strategies used by individuals dealing with phenomena, another individual, a sub-national group, an international group, a state, and a group of states.  The case studies focus on the heavily regulated health care system and include poverty activists, professional associations working towards health reform or official certification, the disciplinary committees of professional colleges, and national and international humanitarian agencies. Books about strategy usually apply it to business or to international security.  This book uses military theory and develops it for use by the layperson in non-military applications.  The most common application of strategy would be in activism or in lobbying.  Other books published about activism provide practical advice about how to lobby your Congressman, but not examples of how other people have used strategy.

Workbook for Political Strategy (New York: Nova, 2002).

This workbook provides a full set of forms to accompany the exercises set out in Strategic Activism and other problems the strategic activist may face.  Books about strategy usually apply it to business or to international security.  I am presently the only author working on applications of strategy using military theory and developing them for use by the layperson.  The most common application of strategy would be in activism or in lobbying.  Other books published about activism provide practical advice about how to lobby your congressman, but not the forms through which problems and tasks can be handled.  William Coplin and Michael O’Leary’s Effective Participation in Government (Policy Associates, 1988) provided worksheets for non-professional lobbyists, but less than a dozen typescript pages of explanatory text.