Philip Bobbitt

Forfatter af The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History

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Philip Bobbitt teaches constitutional law at the University of Texas, where he holds the A.W. Walker Centennial Chair. He served as associate counsel to the President for intelligence and international security, Counsel to the Senate Select Committee on the Iran-Contra Affair, and Counselor on vis mere International Law at the Department of State. He lives in Austin, Texas. vis mindre

Omfatter også følgende navne: Philip Bobbit, Philip Bobbit, Bobbitt Philip

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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History (2002) 725 eksemplarer

Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century (2008) 347 eksemplarer

The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made (2013) 74 eksemplarer

Tragic Choices (1977) 49 eksemplarer

Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution (1982) 42 eksemplarer

Constitutional Interpretation (1991) 8 eksemplarer

Democracy and Deterrence: The History and Future of Nuclear Strategy (1988) 5 eksemplarer

US nuclear strategy : a reader (1989) 4 eksemplarer

American Nuclear Strategy: A Reader (1989) 1 eksemplar

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Juridisk navn: Bobbitt, Philip Chase
Fødselsdato: 1948-07-22
Køn: male
Nationalitet: USA
Fødested: Temple, Texas, USA
Bopæl: USA
England, UK
Uddannelse: Princeton University (AB|1971)
Yale University (JD|1975)
Oxford University (DPhil)
Erhverv: legal scholar
law professor
lawyer
Organisationer: Oxford University
King's College London
University of Texas
Columbia University
Priser og hædersbevisninger: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course… af Philip Bobbitt

A curious analysis of the history of the world and its conflicts, and an attempt to predict the possible futures. Predicting the future is bound to fail as no one can clearly foresee new developments. A pattern that does emerge is the gradual growth in the size of communities, from families, to villages, to principalities, kingdoms, countries, states and nations and to world alliances. If this is continued eventually perhaps the world will be a single unit. For this however the interests of individuals must be subjugated to the interests of the whole. Will that happen is another question.… (mere)

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David-Block | 9 andre anmeldelser | Jan 25, 2024 |

The shield of Achilles : war, peace, and the course… af Philip Bobbitt

almost unreadable

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Baku-X | 9 andre anmeldelser | Jan 10, 2017 |

The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course… af Philip Bobbitt

Magisterial in scope the author surveys law and war and the newly emerging market state of the 21st Century. Could have been two books as the author states.

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gmicksmith | 9 andre anmeldelser | Dec 14, 2014 |

The Shield of Achilles af Philip Bobbitt

almost unreadable