The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History

by PhilipBobbitt (Author), Michael Howard (Foreword)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.40

• Used

  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.40

  An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic cold competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author argues that this long experience of war has brought about a fundamental change in the constitutional basis of states, and explores this idea through the notion of the market state .