Resolving International Disputes Through Super-optimum Solutions

Resolving International Disputes Through Super-optimum Solutions
Author: Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781560729440

This book concerns resolving conflicts on an international level. The author states that for the purposes of this book, the dispute would have to be at the level of a war, revolution, or other dispute that involves substantial bloodshed on one or more sides, rather than a dispute that merely involves words, economic competition, or non-violent conflict. The SOS Resolution is a special kind of Win-Win dispute resolution where one where both or all sides come out ahead of even their best initial expectations simultaneously. The steps and strategies of this resolution are fully explained.

Creativity and Public Policy

Creativity and Public Policy
Author: Stuart S Nagel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2018-01-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351763946

This title was first published in 2000: A history of the ideas behind public policy studies, which can be defined as the study of the nature, causes and effects of government decisions for dealing with social problems.

Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation

Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation
Author: Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780761923749

This handbook deals with many aspects of public policy evaluation: including methods; examples; professionalism studies; perspectives; concepts; substance; theory applications; dispute resolution; interdisciplinary interaction.

Public Policy Studies

Public Policy Studies
Author: Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781590332931

Covers the methods, substance and process of public policy.

Handbook of Win-win Policy Analysis: Basic concepts of win-win analysis

Handbook of Win-win Policy Analysis: Basic concepts of win-win analysis
Author: Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781560729310

This monumental handbook is dedicated to the sources of super-optimising, including: Thomas Saaty on multi-criteria decision-aiding software, Lawrence Susskind on alternative policy-dispute resolution, and Robert Reich on growth economics, which are the fields of management science, law, and social science, applied here toward building a super-optimum, win-win society.

Public Policy Evaluation

Public Policy Evaluation
Author: Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2018-08-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429831080

First published in 1998, this volume examines how super-optimum decisions involve finding alternatives to controversies whereby Conservatives, Liberals, or other major groups can all come out ahead of their best initial expectations simultaneously. This book is organised in terms of concepts, methods, causes, process, substance, and the policy studies profession. Concepts clarify that policy evaluation traditionally involves: (1) Goals to be achieved; (2) Alternatives available for achieving them; (3) Relations between goals and alternatives; (4) Drawing a conclusion as to the best alternative in light of the goals, alternatives, and relations; and (5) Analysing how the conclusion would change if there were changes in the goals, alternatives, or relations. Super-optimizing also involves five related steps, but with the following improvements: (1) Goals are designed as conservative, liberal, or neutral; (2) Alternatives get the same designations; (3) Relations are simplified to indicate which alternatives are relatively high or low on each goal; (4) The conclusion involves arriving at an alternative that does better on Goal A than Alternative A, and simultaneously better on Goal B than Alternative B; and (5) The fifth step involves analysing the super-optimum or win-win alternative in terms of its feasibility as to the economic, technological, psychological, political, administrative, and legal matters.

Korean Unification

Korean Unification
Author: Jacques L. Fuqua
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 161234481X

Since the conclusion of World War II, the Korean people and the international community have contemplated a unified peninsula, but a divided Korea remains one of the last visible vestiges of the Cold War. What will removing this specter entail? And with what should it be replaced? Similar to the unification of East and West Germany, merging North and South Korea is likely the only means of achieving stability and lasting peace on the peninsula. However, after decades of a divided existence--with South Korea now thriving as a democracy and North Korea barely subsisting as a Stalinist dictatorship--this task will be monumental. What form of government would likely emerge, given the North Korean regime's practice of completely controlling its population? How would its citizens, indoctrinated by decades of Juche ideology, be assimilated into a larger community of capitalists? What would become of North Korea's military of 1.2 million? How would a reunified government exercise control over the North's starving masses? These questions are only some of the core issues addressed in Korean Unification: Inevitable Challenges. Jacques L. Fuqua Jr. argues that diplomatic, humanitarian, cultural, and military solutions must coincide to create peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula that could thus extend to elsewhere in Asia.