Thucydides on Strategy

THUCYDIDES ON STRATEGY: Athenian and Spartan Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and their Relevance Today. 

Which is the best treatis on stratefy The two obvious candidates would be Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" and Clausewitz' "On War". However, this book makes a convincing case for naming a third candidate: Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War". Thucydides has been acclaimed as a great historian from time immemorial, and he has also been recently acknowledged as the father of the discipline of International Relations. Nevertheless, his merit as a strategic analyst has been unduly neglected. Thucydides on Strategy brings to light a wealth of strategic concepts contained in Thucydides' text. Moreover, by examining recent cases like the wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, it demonstrates the continued relevance of Thucydidean insights for the present (and future) analysis and planning of strategy at all levels.

Contents:

PREFACE

GRAND STRATEGY: A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS

ATHENS AND SPARTA: POWER STRUCTURES, EARLY CONFLICT AND THE CAUSES OF WAR

PERICLEAN GRAND STRATEGY

SPARTAN GRAND STRATEGY

THUCYDIDES AND STRATEGY IN PERSPECTIVE

STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN THUCYDIDES' HISTORY

CHRONOLOGY

MAP

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Authors: Athanasios Platias / Constantinos koliopoulos

Publisher: Eurasia Publications (2006)

Book condition: NEW COPY.

Shipping weight: 600 gr.