Rethinking Risk in National Security: Lessons of the Financial Crisis for Risk Management

by Michael J. Mazarr

Book Overview

1. Risk, Judgment and Uncertainty.- 2. Defining Risk.- 3. Approaches to Risk in National Security.- 4. Risk and Uncertainty.- 5. Risk is What We Make of It.- 6. Indifferent to Consequences.- 7. The Swans to Worry About Are Gray.- 8. Risk Becomes Personalized.- 9. What You Don't Know Can Destroy You: Ignorance and Correlated Risk.- 10. Risk, Incentives and Culture.- 11. The Role of Risk in Strategy.- 12. Outcome Assessment of the Emerging U.S. National Security Strategy.- 13. Principles of Effective Risk Management.- 14. Managing Uncertainty.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134994887X
• ISBN13: 9781349948871
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"