Blindside
Subtitle: how to anticipate forcing events and wild cards in global politics
By: Francis Fukuyama, editor.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780815729907
Description: "Focuses on developing analytical tools to anticipate and manage low-probability events. Addresses psychological and institutional obstacles preventing planning for low-probability tragedies and allocating necessary resources. Pinpoints failures---institutional and personal---that allowed events to surprise leaders and examines philosophies and methodologies of forecasting. Discusses low-probability, high-impact contingencies in various sectors"--Provided by publisher.