The Use of Force for State Power: History and Future

ISBN-13: 9783030454098 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 315 str.

Michael Warner; John Childress

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction: Tools for Sovereignty: Power and Force

 

Chapter 2: Divide and Conquer: The Progress of Force to 1800                        

 

Chapter 3: “The Civilizing Mission”: European Dominance to 1914                         

 

Chapter 4: The World Crisis:1914-1953                                            

 

Chapter 5: A Frozen World, 1953-1990                                              

 

Chapter 6: A Liberal Order?                                                                 

 

Chapter 7: Information Wars                                                                

 

Conclusion: Force and Trust in the Future

O autorze

Michael Warner serves as an Historian in the U.S. Department of Defense and has written and lectured on intelligence and cyberspace history.

John Childress is a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who has served as a ground commander in Iraq and Afghanistan and as an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Blurb

This book studies force, the coercive application of power against resistance, building from Thomas Hobbes’ observation that all self-contained political orders have some ultimate authority that uses force to both dispense justice and to defend the polity against its enemies. This cross-disciplinary analysis finds that rulers concentrate force through cooperation, conveyance, and comprehension, applying common principles across history. Those ways aim to keep foes from concerting their actions, or by eliminating the trust that should bind them. In short, they make enemies afraid to cooperate, and now they are doing so in cyberspace as well.

Michael Warner serves as an Historian in the U.S. Department of Defense and has written and lectured on intelligence and cyberspace history. 

John Childress is a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who has served as a ground commander in Iraq and Afghanistan and as an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point.