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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- Warrior politics. New York : Random House, ©2002 (OCoLC)606605730 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert D Kaplan |
ISBN: | 0375505636 9780375505638 1588360806 9781588360809 0375726276 9780375726279 |
OCLC Number: | 48053769 |
Description: | xxii, 198 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | There is no "modern" world -- Churchill's River War -- Livy's Punic War -- Sun-Tzu and Thucydides -- Machiavellian virtue -- Fate and intervention -- The great disturbers: Hobbes and Malthus -- The Holocaust, realism, and Kant -- The world of Achilles: ancient soldiers, modern warriors -- Warring states China and global governance -- Tiberius. |
Responsibility: | Robert D. Kaplan. |
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Abstract:
The author draws on the historical wisdom of Sun-Tzu, Thucydides, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and other great thinkers to provide advice for modern-day world leaders confronted with the complex challenges of modern life.
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