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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History Book
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Hardcover. Pub Date: 2003 Publisher: Penguin This ambitious book sets out to reinterpret the history of the twentieth century as a long war in which conditions of outright Military Confrontation or of the Frantic 'Cold' competition lasted From the outeak of the first world war until the collapse of the Soviet Union. He goes on to argue that this long experience of war has ought about a fundamental change in the constitutional basis of states. and explores this idea through the notion of the 'market state'. By clarifying the relationship between constitutional settlements and military power. and by drawing on his firsthand experience in the heart of superpower planning. Bobbitt reveals a startling new way of understanding the past - and an awesome glimpse of the future.Contents: ForewordPrologueBook I State of WarIntroduction: Law. Strategy. and HistoryPart I The Long War of ...
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Sets out to interpret history of the twentieth century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic 'cold' competition lasted from the outbreak of the first world war until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Penguin
For centuries, civilization has been defined by epoch-making cycles of war and peace. But now our world has changed irrevocably.
- 0141007559
- 9780141007557
- Philip Bobbitt
- 27 March 2003
- Penguin
- Paperback (Book)
- 960
- New Ed
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