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

Abstract

Part 1 State of war: introduction - law, strategy and history the Long War of the nation-state - Thucydides and the Epochal war, the struggle begun - Fascism, Communism, Parliamentarianism, 1914-1919, the struggle continued - 1919-1945, the struggle ended -1945-1990 a brief history of the modern state and its constitutional orders - strategy and the constitutional order, from princes to princely states - 1494-1648, from kingly states to territorial states - 1648-1776, from state-nations to nation-states - 1776-1914, the study of the modern state the historic consequences of the Long War - the market-state, strategic choices, strategy and the market-state, the wars of the market-state - conclusion. Part 2 states of peace: introduction - the origin of international law in the constitutional order the society of nation-states - Colonel House and a world made of law, the Kitty Genovese incident and the war in Bosnia, the death of the society of nation-states a brief history of the society of states and the international order - peace and the international order, the Treaty of Augsburg, the peace of Westphalia, the Treaty of Utrecht, the Congress of Vienna, the Versailles Treaty, the peace of Paris the society of market-states - challenges to the new international order, possible worlds, the coming age of war and peace, peace in the society of market-states - conclusion.