Eyal Lewin is assistant professor of political science at the Ariel University Center.

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. National resilience in the framework of a PEST and SWOT model
Chapter 3. The First Republic of Czechoslovakia and the Munich Crisis
Chapter 4. The Fall of the Second Polish Republic
Chapter 5. The Fall of the Kingdom of Norway
Chapter 6. The Fall of the Kingdom of Belgium
Chapter 7. The Fall of the French Third Republic
Chapter 8. The Republic of Finland and the First Winter War
Chapter 9. The Fall of the Third Reich
Chapter 10. The United Kingdom and the Battle of Britain
Chapter 11. The Soviet Union and the Battle of Moscow
Chapter 12. A Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Chapter 13. Conclusion

In political science, war is generally considered the most traumatic event a nation faces, often posing threats to a nation's very existence. The challenge of surviving the war may, therefore, prove central to the life of a nation. However, national resilience during war has not yet been fully investigated. National Resilience during War: Refining the Decision-Making Model, by Eyal Lewin, searches for the mechanisms of national resilience through a deep inquiry into nine different case studies taken from the scenery of World War II. Following a multi-disciplinary attitude, a business management model is adopted (the PEST and SWOT model) and political, economic, social, and military-technological factors are analyzed for each of the case studies. The result is a comprehensive political decision-making model on a national level that can serve as a means for leaders to navigate successfully in geopolitical turbulence as well as for social scientists to better understand the defeats that different countries suffer and the victories that others demonstrate.
This research, however, goes further by refining the model and pointing to the exact combination of factors that are crucial for a nation's ability to win its wars. Using a qualitative comparative analysis technique, the exact combination is traced. The results emphasize that the winning scheme blends political and social factors together: leadership, positive psychology and an inspiring national ethos prove to be a necessary, though not a sufficient, conditional combination for success. National Resilience during War fills a significant gap in the literature on the politics of war.