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The Use of Force for State Power: History and Future

The Use of Force for State Power: History and Future

Warner, Michael
Childress, John

Hardcover

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 3030454096
ISBN13: 9783030454098
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jun 23 2020
Pages: 315
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book studies force, the coercive application of power against resistance, building from Thomas Hobbes' observation that all self-contained political orders have some ultimate authority that uses force to both dispense justice and to defend the polity against its enemies. This cross-disciplinary analysis finds that rulers concentrate force through cooperation, conveyance, and comprehension, applying common principles across history. Those ways aim to keep foes from concerting their actions, or by eliminating the trust that should bind them. In short, they make enemies afraid to cooperate, and now they are doing so in cyberspace as well.

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