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SHIELD OF ACHILLES

 
  WAR. PEACE AND THE COURSE OF HISTORY
PHILIP BOBBITT
Alfred Knopf NY., 2002, 919 pgs., index, bibliography, extensive notes
 
  Forward  
  Prologue  
 

Book I: State of War

 
  Introduction: Law, Strategy, and History  
  Part I: The Long War of the Nation - State  
  Chapter 1 - Thucydides and the Epochal War  
  Chapter 2 - The Struggle Begun: Fascism, Communism, Parliamentarianism, 1914-1919  
  Chapter 3 - The Struggle Continued: 1919-1945  
  Chapter 4 - The Struggle Ended: 1945-1990  
  Part II: A Brief History of the Modern State and it's Constitutional orders  
  Chapter 5 - Strategy and Constitutional Order  
  Chapter 6 - From Princes to Princely States: 1494-1648  
  Chapter 7 - From Kingly States to Territorial States: 1648-1776  
  Chapter 8 - From State-Nations to Nation-States: 1776-1914  
  Chapter 9 - The Study of the Modern State  
  Part III: The Historical Consequences of the Long War  
  Chapter 10 - The Market-State  
  Chapter 11 - Strategic Choices  
  Chapter 12 - Strategy and the Market-State  
  Chapter 13 - The Wars of the Market-State: Conclusion to Book I
 
 

Book II: States of Peace: Introduction: The Origin of International Law in the Constitutional Order

 
  Part I: The Society of Nation States  
  Chapter 14 - Colonel House and a World Made of Law  
  Chapter 15 - The Kitty Genovese Incident and the War in Bosnia  
  Chapter 16 - The Death of the Society of Nation-States  
  Part II: A Brief History of the Society of States and the International Order  
  Chapter 17 - Peace and the International Order  
  Chapter 18 - The Treaty of Augsburg  
  Chapter 19 - The Peace of Westphalia  
  Chapter 20 - The Treaty of Utrecht  
  Chapter 21 - The Congress of Vienna  
  Chapter 22 - The Versailles Treaty  
  Chapter 23 - The Peace of Paris  
  Part III: The Society of Market States  
  Chapter 24 - Challenges to the New International Order  
  Chapter 25 - Possible Worlds  
  Chapter 26 - The Coming Age of War and Peace  
  Chapter 27 - Peace in the Society of Market-States: Conclusion to Book II  
  Epilogue  
  Postscript:The Indian Summer  
  Appendix