TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bobbitt,Philip
TI  - The shield of Achilles: war, peace, and the course of history 
SN  - 0375412921
AV  - JZ1316 B63
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Knopf
KW  - Nation-state
KW  - International relations
KW  - Peace
KW  - War
KW  - armed conflicts
KW  - aat
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 889-900) and index; Thucydides and the epochal war -- The struggle begun : fascism, communism, parliamentarianism, 1914-1919 -- The struggle continued : 1919-1945 -- The struggle ended : 1945-1990 -- 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 market-state -- Strategic choices -- Strategy and the market-state -- The wars of the market-state -- 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 -- 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 -- Challenges to the new international order -- Possible worlds -- The coming age of war and peace -- Peace in the society of market-states
N2  - "A classic inquiry into the nature of the Sate, its origins in war, and its drive for peace and legitimacy."
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