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Record Nr.

UNINA9910407709703321

Autore

Warner Michael

Titolo

The Use of Force for State Power : History and Future / / by Michael Warner, John Childress

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030454104

303045410X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

303.3

320

Soggetti

Politics and war

Security, International

International relations

Military and Defence Studies

International Security Studies

International Relations Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Tools for Sovereignty—Power and Force -- 2. Divide and Conquer: The Progress of Force to 1800 -- 3. "The Civilizing Mission": European Dominance to 1914 -- 4. The World Crisis: 1914–1953 -- 5. A Frozen World, 1953–1990 -- 6. A Liberal Order? -- 7. Information Wars -- 8. Conclusion: Force and Trust in the Future. .

Sommario/riassunto

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 theUnited States Military Academy at West Point.