Introduction to Volume I

Cambridge University Press eBooks, pp. 1–20

Abstract

Here we lay the ground and define the parameters of this project. Definitions of strategy are discussed, giving the rationale for the one chosen to guide our work: Kimberly Kagan’s definition that sees evidence of strategy where prioritisation and choices about means of pursuing political aims at the level of the state (or higher social entity) have been made. This allows us to identify strategic decision making even when no documents have survived that contain explicit articulations of such reasoning.

Authors 2

1. Isabelle Duyvesteyn Aachen

   Leiden University

   Affiliation as printed

   Universiteit Leiden

2. Béatrice Heuser

   University of Glasgow

   Affiliation as printed

   University of Glasgow