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  • Strategic Challenges in the Baltic Sea Region

    Russia, Deterrence, and Reassurance

    by Ann-Sofie Dahl, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Robert Lieber, Gudrun Persson, Jamie Shea, Christopher Coker, Andres Kasekamp, Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, Justyna Gotkowska0, Claudia Major1, Håkon Lunde Saxi2, Johan Raeder3, Karoliina Honkanen4, Alicia von Voss5 ...
    How should the countries in the Baltic Sea region and their allies meet the strategic challenges posed by an openly aggressive and expansionist Russia? NATO and the nonaligned states in the region are now more concerned about an external threat than they have been since the end of the Cold War. Russia has been probing air space, maritime boundaries, and even land borders from the Baltic republics ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Ukraine

    Debating the Future of War

    by Christopher Coker ...
    War in the 21st century will remain a chameleon that takes on different forms and guises. This book offers the first comprehensive update and revision of ideas about the future of war since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. It argues that the war has fundamentally shifted our perspective on the nature and character of future war, but also cautions against marginalizing many other parallel trends, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Rise of the Civilizational State

    by Christopher Coker ...
    In recent years culture has become the primary currency of politics – from the identity politics that characterized the 2016 American election to the pushback against Western universalism in much of the non-Western world.Much less noticed is the rise of a new political entity, the civilizational state. In this pioneering book, the renowned political philosopher Christopher Coker looks in depth at ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Men At War

    What Fiction Tells us About Conflict, From The Iliad to Catch-22

    by Christopher Coker ...
    Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In Men at War, Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous of these fictional creations and their impact on our understanding of war and masculinity. Grouped into five archetypes-warriors, heroes, villains, survivors and victims-these characters range across ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Why War?

    by Christopher Coker ...
    What are humanity's biological origins? What are the mechanisms, including culture, that continue to drive it? What is the history that has allowed it to evolve over time? And what are its functions--how does it survive and thrive by exploiting the features that define it as a species? These are the four questions of the Tinbergen Method for explaining animal behavior, developed by the Nobel ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Men At War: What Fiction Tells us About Conflict, From The Iliad to Catch-22

    by Christopher Coker ...
    Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In Men at War, Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous of these fictional creations and their impact on our understanding of war and masculinity. Grouped into five archetypes-warriors, heroes, villains, survivors and victims-these characters range across ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Character of War in the 21st Century

    Edited by Caroline Holmqvist-Jonsäter, Christopher Coker ...
    Series series LSE International Studies Series
    This edited volume addresses the relationship between the essential nature of war and its character at the beginning of the twenty-first century.The focus is on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, situations that occupy a central role in international affairs and that have become highly influential in thinking about war in the widest sense. The intellectual foundation of the volume is ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Rebooting Clausewitz

    'On War' in the Twenty-First Century

    by Christopher Coker ...
    Rebooting Clausewitz offers an entirely new take on the work of history's greatest theorist of war. Written for an undergraduate readership that often struggles with Clausewitz's master work On War--a book that is often considered too philosophical and impenetrably dense--it seeks to unpack some of Clausewitz's key insights on theory and strategy. In three fictional interludes Clausewitz attends a ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Future War

    by Christopher Coker ...
    Will tomorrow's wars be dominated by autonomous drones, land robots and warriors wired into a cybernetic network which can read their thoughts? Will war be fought with greater or lesser humanity? Will it be played out in cyberspace and further afield in Low Earth Orbit? Or will it be fought more intensely still in the sprawling cities of the developing world, the grim black holes of social ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • EU-Russia Relations

    Time for a Realistic Turnaround

    by Katinka Barysch, Christopher Coker, Leszek Jesień ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    In this paper, three long-time observers of Russia and the EU perform a reality check on the EU–Russia relationship. All three authors agree that a more realistic EU policy would deal with Russia as it is, not as the EU wants it to be. The reality of today’s Russia is complex, as is the policy formulation process in the EU. Nevertheless, the EU should start with a clearer idea of where its own ... Read more

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  • Can War be Eliminated?

    by Christopher Coker ...
    Series series Global Futures
    Throughout history, war seems to have had an iron grip on humanity. In this short book, internationally renowned philosopher of war, Christopher Coker, challenges the view that war is an idea that we can cash in for an even better one - peace. War, he argues, is central to the human condition; it is part of the evolutionary inheritance which has allowed us to survive and thrive. New technologies ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • War in an Age of Risk

    by Christopher Coker ...
    Wars throughout history have been fought in the name of ideology, religion and the pursuit of peace. Our thinking about war – when it is justified, how it should be fought and how it is perceived – has changed dramatically over time. Whereas in the past war has been seen as a battle of wills, this provocative and illuminating new book shows how war has evolved into an exercise in risk management ... Read more

    $21.00 USD