Study of complexities of analysis and security dilemmas in the international system
Dr. Ali Faris Hamid.
Book’s introduction talks about the importance of theoretical assumptions, which practical experience has shown a clear impact on supporting strategies within the international environment and within the countries themselves.
The book noted that the correlation between the cognitive and practical fields would enhance the possibility of employing and understanding the interactions taking place in the international system and increase the ability to prediction responses thus find strategies that preserve and correct the nature of interaction in this system.
The book came in two sections, dealing with the first section, theoretical orientation in strategic studies, and (the theory of the center of scientific attraction in social studies and strategic theoretical assumptions), as well as theoretical discussion in the interpretation of international strategies, realism, liberalism and contemporary inputs in interpreting these strategies and comparing assumptions and encircling the limits of their understanding.
It also analysed international strategies according to the level of decision-maker and methodology of their analysis, function and role as an entry point for contemporary approaches. The author discussed the theory of matches in the analysis of international strategies and the difficulties of adopting geopolitical logic in their analysis.
The second section dealt with the theoretical frameworks of the security dilemma, the balance of threat and the area of understanding of theoretical assumptions, in addition to the balance of interests and the balance of threat, and discussing the security dilemma and the balance of threat under the assumptions of the polar opposites. Finally, the author discussed hegemony, when facing both the Revisionist Powers and Strategic Cannibalization, balance from the outside and the restoration of geopolitical control, actual borders of strategic action in the logic of balance .