The shield of Achilles : war, peace, and the course of history / Philip Bobbitt.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 889-900) and index.

Thucydides and the epochal war -- The struggle begun : fascism, communism, parliamentarianism, 1914-1919 -- The struggle continued : 1919-1945 -- The struggle ended : 1945-1990 -- Strategy and the constitutional order -- From princes to princely states : 1494-1648 -- From kingly states to territorial states : 1648-1776 -- From state-nations to nation-states : 1776-1914 -- The study of the modern state -- The market-state -- Strategic choices -- Strategy and the market-state -- The wars of the market-state -- Colonel House and a world made of law -- The Kitty Genovese incident and the war in Bosnia -- The death of the society of nation-states -- Peace and the international order -- The Treaty of Augsburg -- The Peace of Westphalia -- The Treaty of Utrecht -- The Congress of Vienna -- The Versailles Treaty -- The Peace of Paris -- Challenges to the new international order -- Possible worlds -- The coming age of war and peace -- Peace in the society of market-states.