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The Shield of Achilles

Paperback • 2003 • English

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

By Philip Bobbitt

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About the book

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 frantic 'cold' competition lasted from the outbreak of the first world war until the collapse of the Soviet Union. He goes on to argue 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'. By clarifying the relationship be...Show more

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ISBN

9780141007557

Publisher

Gardners Books

Published year

2003

Language

English

Original title

The Shield of Achilles

Format

Paperback

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