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Managing Strategic Surprise: Lessons from Risk Management and Risk Assessment

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In this article, Bracken, Bremmer and Gordon present a warning system for the case of a surprise attack in a nuclear power plant in the presence of deep uncertainty.
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1. Introduction Paul Bracken, Ian Bremmer and David Gordon 2. How to build a warning system Paul Bracken 3. Intelligence management as risk management: the case of surprise attack Uzi Arad 4. Nuclear proliferation epidemiology: uncertainty, surprise, and risk management Lewis A. Dunn 5. Precaution against terrorism Jessica Stern and Jonathan B. Wiener 6. Defense planning and risk management in the presence of deep uncertainty Paul K. Davis 7. Managing energy security risks in a changing world Coby van der Linde 8. What markets miss: political stability frameworks and country risk Preston Keat 9. The risk of failed state contagion Jeffrey Herbst 10. Conclusion: managing strategic surprise Paul Bracken, Ian Bremmer and David Gordon.

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