The Garments of Court and Palace
- 256pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
One of America's leading public intellectuals presents a fascinating portrait of Machiavelli, his most infamous work, The Prince, and the world in which it was written.
Philip Bobbitt Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
Philip Bobbitt è un distinto autore e accademico americano, rinomato per i suoi contributi alla strategia militare e al diritto costituzionale. I suoi scritti approfondiscono la natura della teoria costituzionale e la sua evoluzione nel tempo. Bobbitt esamina l'intricata interazione tra guerra, pace e il corso della storia, offrendo prospettive illuminanti sulle forze che plasmano le relazioni internazionali e la stabilità politica. Le sue analisi offrono ai lettori una profonda comprensione delle dinamiche di potere e della governance nel mondo contemporaneo.
Terror and Consent argues that, like so many states and civilizations in the past that suffered defeat, we are fighting the last war, with weapons and concepts that were useful to us then but have now been superseded. Philip Bobbitt argues that we need to reforge links that previous societies have made between law and strategy; to realize how the evolution of modern states has now produced a globally networked terrorism that will change as fast as we can identify it; to combine humanitarian interests with strategies of intervention; and, above all, to rethink what 'victory' in such a war, if it is a war, might look like.
The Shield of Achilles
- 960pagine
- 34 ore di lettura
Sets out to interpret history of the twentieth century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic 'cold' competition lasted from the outbreak of the first world war until the collapse of the Soviet Union. schovat popis