Global Strategies Project

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0. Overview / Summary 1. Statistics 1: Table 1 - Encyclopedia Project developments (1976-1995) 2: Table 2 - Strategy entries and relationships by section (1995) 1976-1995 1998: world problems and strategies 1996-2000 2000: loops (Feedback Loops Linking World Problems). 2. Introduction Approach Intended uses Background and acknowledgements 3. Method Definition "Positive" vs "Negative" strategies Document control and strategy description Identification procedure Strategy naming Relationships between strategies Relationships to other sections Computer-assisted generation of strategies Conceptual processes summarized 4. Patterning strategies Classification and section attribution Concept refinement process Language games Patterning the resolutique 5. Strategic ecosystem Configuring strategic trajectories Beyond "The Plan" Feedback loops and dependent co-arising Network strategy Integrating constraint and opposition Configuring strategic dilemmas in intersectoral dialogue Computer representation of strategy networks 6. Governance Resolutique Providing a strategic framework Capacity to govern Uncommon strategic opportunities Public management Spiritual challenge 7. Strategic denial Misappropriation of words of power Reframing the unknown Unmentionable realities Unwritten rules and wishful thinking Action inhibition

8. Post-crisis opportunities Range of strategies Strategies in chaos Strategies in meetings Paradoxical merit of negative strategies In quest of the socio-economics of non-action Global strategy and the game of go Strategic metaphors for thriving In quest of radical coherence 9. Collective strategy-making: designing a strategic array 10. Strategic appropriateness Questionable answers Accumulation of significance Integrating opposition Beyond method Constraints on a meta-answer 11. Embodying discontinuity Containing the incommensurable Order through chaos 12. Epistemological challenges Threshold of comprehensibility Interparadigmatic dialogue Mindscapes De-categorization and poly-ocular vision Language 13. Embracing difference Contrasting strategic styles System dynamics Form and communication 14. Comprehension Social organization determined by incommunicability of insights Internalizing discontinuity 15. Pattern learning Pattern accumulation in a learning society Wholeness and the implicate order Health and space-time and development strategy Structuring around unknowing in a learning society Probabilistic vision of the world 16. Patterns of alternation Cycles of dissonance and resonance A musical key from a political philosopher An agricultural key from crop rotation Entropic crisis and the learning response Cycles of winning and losing Toward an enantiomorphic policy 17. Action implications Consensus, uncertainty and action formulation

18. Tables and typologies of strategies (tentative) Strategy "action qualifiers" organized in the light of strategy clusters Inter-sectoral strategic dilemmas of sustainable development Typology of 12 complementary strategies essential to sustainable development Table of strategems (Chinese) Table of confidence ploys

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Bibliographical references identified in abridged form in any Notes refer to publications detailed, by author, in Section SY of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential, which is the bibliography for Section S.

Notes 10 to 17 previously appeared as Section KD in the 1991 edition of the Encyclopedia (Volume 2). Bibliographical references therein are to Section KY in the current edition (Volume 2).

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From Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential