Just the same questions were being asked 100 years ago, urgently, by world leaders. Invited jointly by Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands and Tsar Nicolas II the last Tsar they gathered at The Hague Peace Conference in 1899 to try to abolish war. They failed, just as the Tsar's chief adviser said that they would.
Jan Bloch was a Polish railway tycoon, philanthropist and polymath. He predicted with chilling accuracy the nature of the World War shortly to come, just as he predicted that he would not be believed. On the occasion of its centenary, his great book, The Future of War, is re-examined in this book of the same name.
A group of the most eminent thinkers in modern security studies have revisited Bloch's questions in light of the experience of Bloch's bloody century. This deeply penetrating and reflective book engages key issues upon which the choices of peace and war will depend in the 21st century.
Wide ranging, uniquely authoritative, crisply and clearly written, The Future of War is the indispensable single volume for all students of international relations, security studies, modern social and political sciences. It is also a primer for world political leaders who today carry the responsibilities of those who gathered and failed at The Hague Peace Conference in 1899.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789041113993
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-90-411-1399-3
- Verlag: Wolters Kluwer
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.06.2000
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2000
- Serie: Nijhoff Law Specials
- Produktform: Kartoniert, PB
- Gewicht: 435 g
- Seiten: 308
- Format (B x H x T): 160 x 243 x 17 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt