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Record W2113480702

Grand Strategy, Culture, and Strategic Choice: A Review

2011· review· en· W2113480702 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
David S. McDonough

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of military and strategic studies · 2011
Typereview
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInternational Relations and Foreign Policy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGrand strategyStrategic thinkingPower (physics)Political scienceStrategic planningInternational relationsStrategic ChoiceSociologyEpistemologyManagementPoliticsLawEconomicsEconomic systemPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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The Canadian debate on security matters has rarely been discussed in terms of either grand strategy or strategic culture. But it would be imprudent to prematurely discard such concepts, which if more fully incorporated into Canada’s own scholarly debate could potentially generate some useful dialogue with wider strategic studies literature. To better clarify these concepts, this review essay will provide an overview on both grand strategy and the explanations for strategic behaviour, with a particular emphasis on international relations theory and strategic culture. As it concludes, grand strategy offers a promising description not only for how a great power approaches strategic affairs, but also potentially for that of a middle power like Canada. And an explanation rooted in strategic culture, despite some lingering conceptual and methodological issues, still provides a good starting point to understanding the sources of grand strategy.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.738
Threshold uncertainty score0.941

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.193
GPT teacher head0.431
Teacher spread0.238 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations3
Published2011
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