Overview
- Provides a multi-disciplinary look at force and its implications for rule
- Develops a conceptual framework of force for sovereign powers based on theory from Aristotle, Sun Tzu, and Thomas Hobbes
- Analyzes the past, present, and future of force and security with a focus on technology as a catalyst for power shifts
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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.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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 the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Use of Force for State Power
Book Subtitle: History and Future
Authors: Michael Warner, John Childress
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45410-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45409-8Published: 23 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45412-8Published: 24 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45410-4Published: 22 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 315
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Military and Defence Studies, International Security Studies, International Relations Theory