Bøger af Michael Nicholson

The Mosaic Escalator entertains and absorbs. Four university students from Melbourne are on a guided tour around Uluru, the red monolith at Australia's centre. Entering a mysterious opening into the rock, they are unable get back out; with their indigenous guide, Yvonne, an adopted Dingo pup, and conflict and humour, they embark on an amazing journey through time and space. As they travel through the unknown, the question invariably arises; whatever happened between the Free and the Obediently Confined...?

Over the past ten years, addressing what Strategic Communications is has been a challenge for the military community. It is at times referred to as a process, referred to in the context of the strategic level of war, and referred to in the context of anyone communicating at any level. The joint community has provided a definition of Strategic Communications and there has been a large amount of non-doctrinal discussions, but very little substance other than the recognition of the need to synchronize actions. Terms like inform, influence and persuade are referred to but have never been doctrinally defined leaving their interpretation up to each individual. This paper proposes a communication framework under which the military practitioner can visualize and verbalize intended cognitive effects desired upon a specified audience. It utilizes a modified version of John Boyd's OODA-Loop, combined with a classic communication model, in order to visually depict the cognitive process that occurs starting with the introduction of new information from one individual to the desired effect that is intended upon another. It also constructs a written format borrowing from the Field Artillery Task-Purpose-Method-Effect construct and applies the framework to three case studies. The cognitive model proposed meets the intent of the 2011 U.S. National Security Strategy, which calls for the better understanding of attitudes, opinions, grievances and concerns of others in order to develop better plans.

This concise introductory text has been written for students beginning International Relations or requiring a brief but comprehensive overview.

After outlining social scientific approaches to international relations, Professor Nicholson describes the problems of rational decision-making in conflict situations.

This book, first published in 1989, gives a critical account of formal international relations theory. That formal and mathematical methods can be applied to the study of international relations is often regarded with surprise, but mathematical methods have been applied to the study of international behaviour since the pioneering work of Lewis Fry Richardson in the 1920s and 1930s.

When a typographical error causes Australia to buy 150 submarines instead of 15, the country becomes a superpower. However, an angry nation sweeps the Australian Greens Party into power, and the new Australian President finds himself President of the World.

How many ways can you find love?How many times can you hear no?How many times can we ask you how many times. Well, Michael Nicholson gives us the answer to all of these questions and more in his comedic action thriller of searching for love.

Dark Rosaleen is a story of love, murder and betrayal, of a failed rebellion and a national scandal. Joining the underground, she preached insurrection, stole food for the starving and became the lover of the leader of the rebellion.