# The Shield of Achilles

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- Authors: [Philip Bobbitt](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-bobbitt)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2003-03-27

## Description

This ambitious book sets out to reinterpret the history of the twentieth century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic " cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of the first world war until the collapseof the Soviet Union. He goes on to argue that this long experience of war has brought about a fundamental change in the constitutional basis of sates, and explores this idea through the notion of the " market state". By clarifying the relationship between constitutional settlements and military power, and by drawing on his firsthand experience in the heart of superpower planning, Bobbitt reveals a startling new way of understanding the past - and an awesome glimpse of the future.

## Editions

### The Shield of Achilles

- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-03-8572-138-7
- Pages: 960
- Published: 2003-09-09
- Language: en_US

### The Shield of Achilles

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4100-755-7
- Pages: 960
- Published: 2003-03-27
- Language: en_GB

### The Shield of Achilles

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4193-794-6
- Published: 2003-03-27
- Language: en_GB