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Future War by Christopher Coker
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $103.01Will tomorrow's wars be dominated by autonomous drones, land robots and warriors wired into a cybernetic network which can read their thoughts? Will war be fought with greater or lesser humanity?... -
Future War by Christopher Coker 9781509502325
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.57Will tomorrow's wars be dominated by autonomous drones, land robots and warriors wired into a cybernetic network which can read their thoughts? Will war be fought with greater or lesser humanity?... -
Humane Warfare Christopher Coker 9780415255769
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $93.18The decision to fight 'humanitarian wars' - such as Kosovo - and the development of technology to make war more humane, illustrates the trend in the West to try to humanise war, and thereby humanise... -
Can War be Eliminated? by Christopher Coker
Booksplease Price: $34.04Throughout history, war seems to have had an iron grip on humanity. In this short book, internationally renowned philosopher of war, Christopher Coker, challenges the view that war is an idea that we... -
Twilight Of The West by Christopher Coker 9780813333687
RRP: $60.90Booksplease Price: $44.50It would have been inconceivable," wrote Henry Kissinger in his best-selling book Diplomacy, that the architects of NATO would have seen as the end result of victory in the Cold War greater... -
The Future of the Atlantic Alliance by Christopher Coker 9780333375464
Booksplease Price: $190.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333375464Author Christopher CokerFormat HardbackPage Count 241Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher... -
Can War be Eliminated? by Christopher Coker 9780745679228
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $76.23Throughout history, war seems to have had an iron grip on humanity. In this short book, internationally renowned philosopher of war, Christopher Coker, challenges the view that war is an idea that we... -
War in an Age of Risk by Christopher Coker 9780745642871
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $94.08Wars throughout history have been fought in the name of ideology, religion and the pursuit of peace. Our thinking about war - when it is justified, how it should be fought and how it is perceived -... -
Ethics and War in the 21st Century by Christopher Coker 9780415452823
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $89.59This book explores the ethical implications of war in the contemporary world. The author, a leading theorist of warfare, explains why it is of crucial importance that Western countries should... -
Rebooting Clausewitz: 'On War' in the Twenty-First Century by Christopher Coker
Booksplease Price: $39.65Rebooting Clausewitz offers an entirely new take on the work of history's greatest theorist of war. Written for an undergraduate readership that often struggles with Clausewitz's master work On... -
The Rise of the Civilizational State Christopher Coker (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9781509534630
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $35.76In recent years culture has become the primary currency of politics - from the identity politics that characterized the 2016 American election to the pushback against Western universalism in much of... -
Globalisation and Insecurity in the Twenty-First Century: NATO and the Management of Risk Christopher Coker 9780198516712
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $55.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198516712Author Christopher CokerFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Oxford University Press... -
War in an Age of Risk Christopher Coker (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9780745642888
Booksplease Price: $38.18Wars throughout history have been fought in the name of ideology, religion and the pursuit of peace. Our thinking about war - when it is justified, how it should be fought and how it is perceived -... -
The Improbable War: China, the United States and the Logic of Great Power Conflict by Christopher Coker
Booksplease Price: $34.19The Improbable War explains why conflict between the USA and China cannot be ruled out. In 1914 war between the Great Powers was considered unlikely, yet it happened. We learn only from history, and... -
The Future of War: The Re-Enchantment of War in the Twenty-First Century by Christopher Coker 9781405120425
RRP: $183.23Booksplease Price: $161.99In this book, Professor Christopher Coker presents an original and controversial thesis about the future of war. Argues that the biotechnology revolution has given war a new lease of life.Draws on... -
The Rise of the Civilizational State Christopher Coker (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9781509534623
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $103.01In recent years culture has become the primary currency of politics - from the identity politics that characterized the 2016 American election to the pushback against Western universalism in much of... -
The Future of War: The Re-Enchantment of War in the Twenty-First Century by Christopher Coker 9781405120432
RRP: $56.60Booksplease Price: $52.96In this book, Professor Christopher Coker presents an original and controversial thesis about the future of war. Argues that the biotechnology revolution has given war a new lease of life.Draws on... -
The Improbable War: China, the United States and the Logic of Great Power Conflict by Christopher Coker 9781849048781
Booksplease Price: $34.19The Improbable War explains why conflict between the USA and China cannot be ruled out. In 1914 war between the Great Powers was considered unlikely, yet it happened. We learn only from history, and... -
The Warrior Ethos: Military Culture and the War on Terror Christopher Coker (London School of Economics & Political Science, London, UK) 9780415424523
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $93.18This is the first scholarly book to look at the role of the 'warrior' in modern war, arguing that warriors' actions, and indeed thoughts, are increasingly patrolled and that the modern battlefield is... -
Warrior Geeks: How 21st Century Technology is Changing the Way We Fight and Think About War by Christopher Coker 9781849042543
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $68.10Warrior Geeks examines how technology is transforming the way we think about and fight war, taking three major changes that are driving this process: cybernetic technologies that are folding soldiers... -
NATO and Collective Defence in the 21st Century: An Assessment of the Warsaw Summit Karsten Friis 9780415786294
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $112.98This book presents a cutting-edge assessment of NATO's collective defence strategies in the immediate aftermath of the July 2016 NATO Warsaw Summit.Collective defence and deterrence came back on the... -
The Character of War in the 21st Century Caroline Holmqvist-Jonsater (King's College London, UK) 9780415691536
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $111.17This edited volume addresses the relationship between the essential nature of war and its character at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The focus is on the conflicts in Iraq and... -
Non-State Actors in World Politics by D. Josselin 9780333968147
Booksplease Price: $118.48The involvement of non-state actors in world politics can hardly be characterised as novel, but intensifying economic and social exchange and the emergence of new modes of international governance... -
Politics of Ethnic Cleansing: Nation-State Building and Provision of In/Security in Twentieth-Century Balkans by Klejda Mulaj 9780739117828
Booksplease Price: $202.34This book sheds light on the causes and consequences of ethnic cleansing in the twentieth century Balkans with particular reference to the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. In providing a thorough and... -
Politics of Ethnic Cleansing: Nation-State Building and Provision of In/Security in Twentieth-Century Balkans by Klejda Mulaj 9780739117835
Booksplease Price: $108.57This book sheds light on the causes and consequences of ethnic cleansing in the twentieth century Balkans with particular reference to the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. In providing a thorough and... -
The Good War: NATO and the Liberal Conscience in Afghanistan by M. J. Williams 9780230294288
Booksplease Price: $97.19The Good War tackles the issue of NATO in Afghanistan, exploring NATO's evolution in the 1990s and blending NATO's transformation from a reactive defense organization into a pro-active risk manager... -
The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice by Colin S. Gray 9780199579662
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $181.52The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice is an original contribution to the general theory of strategy. While heavily indebted to Carl von Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and the very few other classic authors,... -
The Anti-Pelagian Imagination in Political Theory and International Relations: Dealing in Darkness by Nicholas Rengger
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58This volume draws together some of the key works of Nicholas Rengger, focusing on the theme of the 'anti-Pelagian imagination' in political theory and international relations. Rengger frames the... -
Clausewitz's Timeless Trinity: A Framework For Modern War by Colin M. Fleming
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $102.98This is the first book to apply the Clausewitzian Trinity of 'passion, chance, and reason' to the experience of real war. It explores the depth and validity of the concept against the conflicts of... -
The Future of War: A History by Sir Lawrence Freedman
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70For as long as there have been wars there have been fears about the next war. Where are the new dangers? What is the best defence? How might peace come about? This is the history of how over the... -
More Than Just War: Narratives of the Just War and Military Life by Charles Jones 9781138125872
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.19This book raises questions about the just war tradition through a critical examination of its revival and by juxtaposing it with a literary phenomenology of war. Recent public debate about war has... -
Military Strategy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for NATO by Janne Haaland Matlary
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $40.30What is military strategy today? In an era when European states seek to de-escalate and avoid armed conflict, and where politicians fear the consequences of protracted operations or tactical hazards,... -
Military Strategy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for NATO by Janne Haaland Matlary 9781787383913
Booksplease Price: $91.75What is military strategy today? In an era when European states seek to de-escalate and avoid armed conflict, and where politicians fear the consequences of protracted operations or tactical hazards,... -
Mercenaries, Hybrid Armies and National Security: Private Soldiers and the State in the 21st Century Caroline Varin 9780367600426
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.97This book assesses the use of 'mercenaries' by states, and their integration into the national armed forces as part of a new hybridisation trend of contemporary armies. Governments, especially in the... -
The Scientific Way of Warfare,: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity by Antoine J. Bousquet
Booksplease Price: $35.99Bousquet's landmark book examines the impact of key technologies and scientific ideas on the theory and practice of warfare and the handling of the perennial tension between order and chaos on the... -
Enemies Known and Unknown: Targeted Killings in America's Transnational Wars by Jack McDonald
Booksplease Price: $49.94President Obama was elected on an anti-war platform, yet targeted killings have increased under his command of the 'War on Terror'. The US thinks of itself as upholding the rule of international law... -
Can Science End War? Everett Carl Dolman 9780745685960
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $20.20Free-roaming killer drones stalk the battlespace looking for organic targets. Human combatants are programmed to feel no pain. Highpower microwave beams detonate munitions, jam communications, and... -
Can Science End War? by Everett Carl Dolman 9780745685953
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $67.94Free-roaming killer drones stalk the battlespace looking for organic targets. Human combatants are programmed to feel no pain. Highpower microwave beams detonate munitions, jam communications, and... -
The Military's Business: Designing Military Power for the Future by Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen 9781107477353
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $53.40If the military were a business, would you buy shares? Over recent years, Western armed forces, particularly the US, have been costing more yet achieving less. At the same time, austerity measures... -
A Quarter Century of Common Knowledge: Eleven Conversations by Jeffrey M. Perl 9781478004905
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $43.39To commemorate the journal's quarter-century, this double issue consists of foundational pieces arranged in conversation with one another. Common Knowledge has opened lines of communication among...