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| Foreword | xv | |
| Prologue | xxi | |
| Book I | State of War | |
| Introduction: Law, Strategy, and History | 5 | |
| Part I | The Long War of the Nation-State | |
| 1. | Thucydides and the Epochal War | 21 |
| 2. | The Struggle Begun: Fascism, Communism, Parliamentarianism, 1914-1919 | 24 |
| 3. | The Struggle Continued: 1919-1945 | 34 |
| 4. | The Struggle Ended: 1945-1990 | 45 |
| Part II | A Brief History of the Modern State and its Constitutional Orders | |
| 5. | Strategy and the Constitutional Order | 69 |
| 6. | From Princes to Princely States: 1494-1648 | 75 |
| 7. | From Kingly States to Territorial States: 1648-1776 | 95 |
| 8. | From State-Nations to Nation-States: 1776-1914 | 144 |
| 9. | The Study of the Modern State | 205 |
| Part III | The Historic Consequences of the Long War | |
| 10. | The Market-State | 213 |
| 11. | Strategic Choices | 243 |
| 12. | Strategy and the Market-State | 283 |
| 13. | The Wars of the Market-State: Conclusion to Book I Plates I-V | 344 |
| Book II | States of Peace | |
| Introduction: The Origin of International Law in the Constitutional Order | 353 | |
| Part I | The Society of Nation-States | |
| 14. | Colonel House and a World Made of Law | 367 |
| 15. | The Kitty Genovese Incident and the War in Bosnia | 411 |
| 16. | The Death of the Society of Nation-States | 468 |
| Part II | A Brief History of the Society of States and the International Order | |
| 17. | Peace and the International Order | 481 |
| 18. | The Treaty of Augsburg | 486 |
| 19. | The Peace of Westphalia | 501 |
| 20. | The Treaty of Utrecht | 520 |
| 21. | The Congress of Vienna | 538 |
| 22. | The Versailles Treaty | 570 |
| 23. | The Peace of Paris | 609 |
| Part III | The Society of Market-States | |
| 24. | Challenges to the New International Order | 667 |
| 25. | Possible Worlds | 715 |
| 26. | The Coming Age of War and Peace | 776 |
| 27. | Peace in the Society of Market-States: Conclusion to Book II | 798 |
| Epilogue | 811 | |
| Postscript: The Indian Summer | 819 | |
| Appendix | 825 | |
| A Note on Eurocentrism | 825 | |
| A Note on Causality | 825 | |
| A Note on Periodicity | 827 | |
| Notes | 829 | |
| Bibliography | 889 | |
| Acknowledgments | 901 | |
| Index | 903 |
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Michikazu Yoshioka
reviewed The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History on March 20, 2008
The Shield of Achilles
Pulled out 'The Shield' recently and re-read some sections - Bobbitt is an interesting character, a constitutional lawyer and historian. I heard him speak at the Stanford Law and Ethics Forum a few weeks ago on 'Terror and Consent' which is also the title of his new book. The 'Shield' is of door-stop dimensions, but it had (for me) great value. He traces the dynamic, evolutionary relationship between the internal, constitutional order of states and the external challenges of strategy and war, beginning in the 15th century He argues that the effectiveness of internal mechanisms of order is proven (or not) in the Darwinian arena of foreign affairs. For example the so called 'long war'- all the conflicts between 1914 and the Peace of Paris in 1990 were (in his terms) an epochal war between the constitutional orders of fascism,communism and democracy. We are now, according to Bobbitt, in the beginning phases of a new epochal war, the war on terror, the first in which it will not require a state to destroy a state and which will force constitutional changes to survive the challenge. Gotta love a big picture guy. But he could use a brevity focused editor. Recommended- but be prepared to skim!
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