Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Requires a Pagan EthosIn Warrior Politics, the esteemed journalist and analyst Robert D. Kaplan explores the wisdom of the ages for answers for today’s leaders. While the modern world may seem more complex and dangerous than ever before, Kaplan writes from a deeper historical perspective to reveal how little things actually change. Indeed, as Kaplan shows us, we can look to history’s most influential thinkers, who would have understood and known how to navigate today’s dangerous political waters. Drawing on the timeless work of Sun Tzu, Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, among others, Kaplan argues that in a world of unstable states and an uncertain future, it is increasingly imperative to wrest from the past what we need to arm ourselves for the road ahead. Wide-ranging and accessible, Warrior Politics is a bracing book with an increasingly important message that challenges readers to see the world as it is, not as they would like it to be. |
Contents
THERE IS NO MODERN WORLD | 3 |
CHURCHILLS RIVER WAR | 17 |
LIVYS PUNIC WAR | 28 |
SUNTZU AND THUCYDIDES | 38 |
MACHIAVELLIAN VIRTUE | 52 |
FATE AND INTERVENTION | 65 |
THE GREAT DISTURBERS HOBBES AND MALTHUS | 78 |
THE HOLOCAUST REALISM AND KANT | 96 |
THE WORLD OF ACHILLES ANCIENT SOLDIERS | 116 |
WARRING STATES CHINA AND GLOBAL | 134 |
TIBERIUS | 150 |
| 157 | |
NOTES | 165 |
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