Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-163) and index.
Contents
There is no "modern world" -- Churchill's River War -- Livy's Punic War -- Sun-Tzu and Thucydides -- Machiavellian virtue -- Fate and intervention -- The great disturbers : Hobbes and Malthus -- The Holocaust, Realism, and Kant -- The world of Achilles : ancient soldiers, modern warriors -- Warring states China and global governance -- Tiberius.