This volume focuses on the processes by which rulers and states have framed strategy from the fifth century BC to the present.

E.H. Carr's Twenty Years' Crisis is a classic work in international relations. Published in 1939, on the eve of World War II, it was immediately recognized by friend and foe alike as a defining work in the fledgling discipline. Edited by Michael Cox, the book has the student in mind.

From the ideas of Clausewitz to contemporary doctrines of containment and cold war, this title presents the history of modern military thought. It explores conceptions of war, strategy, and military theory and relates them to their cultural and historical contexts.

War cannot be controlled in future without an understanding of its past. These essays analyse war, its strategic characteristics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries.

Explains how strategic reasoning makes sense of the complexity of war on land, at sea, in the air, in space, and even 'cyberspace'. This book shows how strategy works in all geographical environments and with all kinds of weapons. Giving an account of strategy since the Cold War ended, it is for students of modern strategy and security studies.

Analyses war in the context of globalization. This title contains a chapter on the Iraq war as well as a foreword and material on the Balkans.