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Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Hew Strachan and Andreas Herberg-Rothe
334 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-923202-4
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Hardback
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13 September 2007
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- Engaging new interpretation of a hugely influential international theorist
- Contributions form an unprecedented range of disciplines
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.Readership: Scholars and students of international relations and theory, especially those interested in military history and strategy.
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Edited by Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford, and Andreas Herberg-Rothe, Private Lecturer, Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt-University Berlin Contributors:
Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford
Andreas Herberg-Rothe, Private Lecturer, Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt-University Berlin
Alan Beyerchen, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University
Jan Willem Honig, Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King's College, London
Christopher Bassford, Professor of Strategy,
National War College, Washington D.C
Daniel Moran, teaches in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College
Ulrike Kleemeier, lecturer in philosophy at the university of Münster in Germany
José Fernández Vega, teaches social philosophy and aesthetics at the University of Buenos Aires
Beatrice Heuser, Department of Military History, Bundeswehr
Jon Sumida, US Marine Corps University
Christopher Daase, Full Professor and holds the Chair in International Relations at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Antulio J. Echevarria II, Director of Research at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, USA.
Herfried Münkler, Professor of Political Theory, Dept of Social Science, Humboldt University, Berlin
David Lonsdale, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Hull
Wilfried von Bredow, Dept of Political Science, Philipps University Marburg
Benoît Durieux
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"A closer reading of Clausewitz gives rise to the following implications for warfare in the 21st century. First, the war on terror, as with all wars, is irreversibly political in nature, and requires a decidedly political approach. (...) Second, globalization intensifies the role of politics, and indeed reduces reaction time within all three elements of Clausewitz's wondrous trinity, which is quite different from so called trinitarian war and which is Clausewitz's true legacy. Third, policys subordinating influence over warfare suggests that the overarching political goal for grand strategy in the 21st century should be the containment of violence, with the intent to diminish armed conflict as precondition for establishing democracies." -
worldsecurity network
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Michael Howard: Foreword: Clausewitz On War: a History of the Howard-Paret Translation -
Hew Strachan and Andreas Herberg-Rothe: 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
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