As both studies argue, understanding North Korea, too often dismissed as a merely irrational and reckless pariah, is the starting point for devising sensible policy to manage the dangers that it poses.
He argued that understanding the evolution of microbes was central to understanding evolutionary biology.
In 2011, Henry Kissinger published the book "On China," in which he argued that understanding the twenty-five-hundred-year-old game, known in Chinese as wei qi, is essential to understanding Chinese thinking and military strategy.
He argued that understanding every part of the data relating to an organisation allows them to make significant efficiency changes.
Even saddled with an inappropriate laughter track (which Sorkin rightly argued against, understanding that this was a sitcom without the traditional beats), Sports Night shines.
The U.S.-led international community has been too quick to meddle in other countries' affairs, he argued, without understanding the local situation.
He argued that understanding something requires a grasp of the ways in which it relates to other things, and a capacity to recognise it on other occasions and in different contexts - which can never be exhaustively predicted.
Ronald Dworkin, for example, argued that understanding egalitarian justice requires striking the correct balance between an individual's responsibility for his own life and society's collective responsibility to provide genuine equal opportunity for all citizens.
Odum also argued that understanding successional change was central to the management of a great variety of environmental challenges.
It is argued that understanding the process of technological diffusion and innovation is critically important for any country that desires to join the group of core innovators.
It is argued that understanding the flood processes for each of the flood types is a prerequisite for estimating the flood hazard reliably.
