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  • Lo scontro degli Stati-civilità

    de Christopher Coker ...
    Cosa hanno in comune la Cina di Xi Jinping e la Russia di Vladimir Putin? Cosa sono gli Stati-civiltà? E perché la cosa dovrebbe preoccuparci? La seconda metà del XX secolo e il primo decennio del XXI secolo sono stati caratterizzati dall’affermazione dello Stato-nazione come forma di organizzazione politica per eccellenza e, a partire dalla caduta dell’URSS, dall’egemonia incontestata dell ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Beyond Ukraine

    Debating the Future of War

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Men At War

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Improbable War

    China, The United States and Logic of Great Power Conflict

    de Christopher Coker ...
    The Improbable War explains why conflict between the USA and China cannot be ruled out. In 1914 war between the Great Powers was considered unlikely, yet it happened. We learn only from history, and popular though the First World War analogy is, the lessons we draw from its outbreak are usually mistaken. Among these errors is the tendency to over-estimate human rationality. All major conflicts of ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Why War?

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Rise of the Civilizational State

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $22.00 USD

  • Rebooting Clausewitz

    'On War' in the Twenty-First Century

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Globalisation and Insecurity in the Twenty-First Century

    NATO and the Management of Risk

    de Christopher Coker ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    Discusses the impact of globalisation on security in the West and in particular the way it has changed the nature of NATO as well as its security agenda. ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Future War

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $23.00 USD

  • Can War be Eliminated?

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $16.00 USD

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • War in an Age of Risk

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $21.00 USD