Strategic Relationships, Risk, and Proxy War

Strategic Proxy Voting

Despite its importance, voting in the elections of corporate boards of directors remains relatively unexplored in the empirical literature. We construct a comprehensive dataset of 3,204,890 mutual fund votes in director elections that took place between July 2003 and June 2005. We …nd substantial systematic heterogeneity in fund voting patterns: some mutual funds are management friendly, and ot...

Proxy war and US's smart power strategy (the case of Syria, 2011-2016)

‌Frequent application of the term “proxy war” indicates its prominent place in academic researches on international relations. Separate implementation of soft power and hard power proved to be unsuccessful in recent years. Accordingly, great failures in classic wars increased tendencies towards proxy wars. By the outbreak of Arab Springs in the early 2011, Syria was devastated by different oppo...

Conditional Relationships and Civil War

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Cruise Missiles and Modern War: Strategic and Technological Implications

Moran : Strategic Theory and the History of War

1 This essay surveys the development of strategic theory from its emergence in the seventeenth century through the era of the world wars. Although the focus is on ideas, some account is taken of changing historical circumstances against which strategic thought has unfolded. The goal of theory in any field is to improve our understanding of reality , and our ability to act effectively. In the ca...