The Routledge-Solaris Focus on Strategy, Wisdom and Skill series aims to be a vital collection of inter-disciplinary short-form books bringing together the experiences and insights of practitioners and academics to provide practical guidance and solutions for a wide range of readers. We’re looking for the following:
• Interdisciplinary books examining the boundaries of two or more disciplines in Arts, Sciences or practical disciplines such as public policy, business, urban, law etc, with focus on theoretical rigour and practical relevance, written by authors with mastery of more than one discipline (innovative, paradigm-shifting think pieces), or authors with deep practitioner experience and/or PhD (applied strategy/wisdom primer)
• Theoretical syntheses of a single discipline in layman-accessible language, written by authors with PhDs (synthetic disciplinary primer)
• Deep practitioner insights/acumen synthesised into a conceptual framework, written by authors with decades of practitioner experience (reflective wisdom/skills primer)
If your work fits one or more of the above categories, you’re able to write accessibly and are ideally able to produce a manuscript between 35-50,000 words, then please get in touch with the series editor Dr Charles Chao Rong Phua at [email protected].
By Charles Chao Rong Phua
May 31, 2023
What is pragmatism? Is it a means to an end, or an end in itself? Is it antithetical to ideology or morality? Arguing that pragmatism is a skill much more than an attribute, Phua examines how viewing it in this way can help achieve better foreign policy outcomes. He examines and contrasts the ways...
By Hae Young Lee
March 06, 2023
Policy thought integrates the “why” of political philosophy and the “how” of public policy formulation. Lee outlines five key principles for the development of policy thought: The Principle of Policy Statism The Principle of Policy Goodness The Principle of Policy Balance The Principle of Policy ...
By Charles Chao Rong Phua
February 10, 2023
Phua focuses on applying the best of corporate strategy and innovation tools and praxis into the policy process with the aim of devising a coherent policy strategy–innovation framework and process. Government and business strategies differ in their operating assumptions and variables, but the ...
By Charles Chao Rong Phua
October 25, 2022
The Thucydides trap and a US-China face-off are not structurally inevitable; US-China relations are what the US and China make of them. Phua focuses on the ability to see "US as US" and "China as China" to trigger both countries’ cultural tendencies towards pragmatism. Phua examines China’s ...