Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 666 g
Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 666 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-923202-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Clausewitz's On War has, at least until very recently, been regarded as the most important work of theory on its subject. But since the end of the Cold War in 1990, and even more since the 9/11 attacks on the United states in 2001, an increasing number of commentators have argued that On War has lost its analytical edge as a tool for understanding war. They have argued that Clausewitz was concerned solely with inter-state war and with properly defined armies, and that the sorts of conflicts which he discussed are therefore part of a historical pattern which dominated Europe between 1648, the end of the Thirty Years War, and 1990 itself. Some have gone further, and suggested that Clausewitz's best known aphorism, that war is a continuation of policy by other means, is not only irrelevant today but also inapplicable historically. Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century reconsiders the principal themes in Clausewitz's writings from a contemporary perspective, and finds in them much more inspiration and insight than these generalisations allow. Embracing the perspectives of history, philosophy and political science, the book reconsiders both the text and its current implications. Traditional interpretations of On War are put into fresh light; neglected passages are re-examined; and new insights are derived from the conjunction between Clausewitz's text and today's challenges.
This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.
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Weitere Infos & Material
- Foreword: Clausewitz On War: a History of the Howard-Paret Translation -
- Introduction
- 1: Hew Strachan: Clausewitz and the Dialectics of War
- 2: Alan Beyerchen: Clausewitz and the Non-Linear Nature of War: Systems of Organized Complexity
- 3: Jan Willem Honig: Clausewitz's On War: Problems of Text and Translation
- 4: Christopher Bassford: The Primacy of Policy and the 'Trinity' in Clausewitz's Mature Thought
- 5: Daniel Moran: The Instrument: Clausewitz on Aims and Objectives in War
- 6: Ulrike Kleemeier: Moral Forces in War
- 7: José Fernández Vega: War as 'Art': Aesthetics and Politics in Clausewitz's Social Thinking
- 8: Beatrice Heuser: Clausewitz's Ideas of Strategy and Victory
- 9: Jon Sumida: On Defence as the Stronger Form of War
- 10: Christopher Daase: Clausewitz and Small Wars
- 11: Antulio J: Clausewitz and the Nature of the War on Terror
- 12: Herfried Münkler: Clausewitz and the Privatization of War
- 13: David Lonsdale: Clausewitz and Information Warfare
- 14: Benoît Durieux: Clausewitz and the Two Temptations of Modern Strategic Thinking
- 15: Wilfried von Bredow: Civil-Military Relations and Democracies
- 16: Andreas Herberg-Rothe: Clausewitz and a New Containment: the Limitation of War and Violence
