Philip Bobbitt

The Shield of Achilles

War, Peace, and the Course of History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An epic examination into the historical role of the State and what the future might hold.

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For five centuries, the State has evolved according to epoch-making cycles of war and peace. But now our world has changed irrevocably. What faces us in this era of fear and uncertainty? How do we protect ourselves against war machines that can penetrate the defenses of any state? Visionary and prophetic, The Shield of Achilles looks back at history, at the "Long War” of 1914-1990, and at the future: the death of the nation-state and the birth of a new kind of conflict without precedent.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 960
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 127mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 691g
• ISBN-13: 9780385721387
• ISBN-10: 0385721382
• Artikelnr.: 21003326

Autorenporträt

Philip Bobbitt

Inhaltsangabe

™Foreword
Prologue
Book I—State of War
Introduction: Law, Strategy, and History
Part I—The Long War of the Nation-State
1. Thucydides and the Epochal War
2. The Struggle Begun: Fascism, Communism, Parliamentarianism, 1914–1919
3. The Struggle Continued: 1919–1945
4. The Struggle Ended: 1945–1990
Part II—A Brief History of the Modern State and its Constitutional Orders
5. Strategy and the Constitutional Order
6. From Princes to Princely States: 1494–1648
7. From Kingly States to Territorial States: 1648–1776
8. From State-Nations to Nation-States: 1776–1914
9. The Study of the Modern State
Part III—The Historic Consequences of the Long War
10. The Market-State
11. Strategic Choices
12. Strategy and the Market-State
13. The Wars of the Market-State: Conclusion to Book I Plates I-V
Book II—States of Peace
Introduction: The Origin of International Law in the Constitutional Order
Part I—The Society of Nation-States
14. Colonel House and a World Made of Law
15. The Kitty Genovese Incident and the War in Bosnia
16. The Death of the Society of Nation-States
Part II—A Brief History of the Society of States and the International
Order
17. Peace and the International Order
18. The Treaty of Augsburg
19. The Peace of Westphalia
20. The Treaty of Utrecht
21. The Congress of Vienna
22. The Versailles Treaty
23. The Peace of Paris
Part III—The Society of Market-States
24. Challenges to the New International Order
25. Possible Worlds
26. The Coming Age of War and Peace
27. Peace in the Society of Market-States: Conclusion to Book II
Epilogue
Postscript: The Indian Summer
Appendix
A Note on Eurocentrism
A Note on Causality
A Note on Periodicity
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index