The shield of Achilles : war, peace and the course of history / Philip Bobbitt.

London : Allen Lane, 2002.

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Peace.

War.

War -- History.

International relations.

National state.

Treaties -- Europe.

Book I. State of war: Introduction : law, strategy and history

Part I. The long war of the nation-state: 1. Thucydides and the epochal war

2. The struggle begun : fascism, communism, parliamentarianism, 1914-1919

3. The struggle continued : 1919-1945

4. The struggle ended : 1945-1990

Part II. A brief history of the modern state and its constitutional orders: 5. Strategy and the constitutional order

6. From princes to princely states : 1494-1648

7. From kingly states to territorial states : 1648-1776

8. From state-nations to nation-states : 1776-1914

9. The study of the modern state

Part III. The historic consequences of the long war: 10. The market-state

11. Strategic choices

12. Strategy and the market-state

13. The wars of the market-state : conclusion to Book I

Plates I-V

Book II. States of peace: Introduction : the origin of international law in the constitutional order

Part I. The society of nation-states: 14. Colonel House and a world made of law

15. The Kitty Genovese incident and the war in Bosnia

16. The death of the society of nation-states

Part II. A brief history of the society of states and the international order: 17. Peace and the international order

18. The Treat of Ausburg

19. The Peace of Westphalia

20. The Treaty of Utrecht

21. The Congress of Vienna

22. The Versailles Treaty

23. The Peace of Paris

Part III. The society of market-states: 24. Challenges to the new international order

25. Possible worlds

26. The coming age of war and peace

27. Peace in the society of market-states : conclusion to Book II

Epilogue

Postscript : The Indian Summer

Appendix: A note of Eurocentrism

A note on causality

A note on periodicity.

Includes bibliography and index.

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