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The essential resource on military and political strategy and the
making of the modern world The New Makers of Modern Strategy is the
next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key
figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and
statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries
by a who's who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides
global, comparative perspectives on strategic thought from
antiquity to today, surveying both classical and current themes of
strategy while devoting greater attention to the Cold War and
post-9/11 eras. The contributors evaluate the timeless requirements
of effective strategy while tracing the revolutionary changes that
challenge the makers of strategy in the contemporary world. Amid
intensifying global disorder, the study of strategy and its history
has never been more relevant. The New Makers of Modern Strategy
draws vital lessons from history's most influential strategists,
from Thucydides and Sun Zi to Clausewitz, Napoleon, Churchill, Mao,
Ben-Gurion, Andrew Marshall, Xi Jinping, and Qassem Soleimani. With
contributions by Dmitry Adamsky, John Bew, Tami Davis Biddle, Hal
Brands, Antulio J. Echevarria II, Elizabeth Economy, Charles Edel,
Eric S. Edelman, Andrew Ehrhardt, Lawrence Freedman, John Lewis
Gaddis, Francis J. Gavin, Christopher J. Griffin, Ahmed S. Hashim,
Eric Helleiner, Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Seth G. Jones, Robert Kagan,
Jonathan Kirshner, Matthew Kroenig, James Lacey, Guy Laron, Michael
V. Leggiere, Margaret MacMillan, Tanvi Madan, Thomas G. Mahnken,
Carter Malkasian, Daniel Marston, John H. Maurer, Walter Russell
Mead, Michael Cotey Morgan, Mark Moyar, Williamson Murray, S.C.M.
Paine, Sergey Radchenko, Iskander Rehman, Thomas Rid, Joshua
Rovner, Priya Satia, Kori Schake, Matt J. Schumann, Brendan Simms,
Jason K. Stearns, Hew Strachan, Sue Mi Terry, and Toshi Yoshihara.
The best political biography of the year' Jonathan Sumption,
Spectator 'Wonderful . . . A Life so nearly complete it need never
be written again' Ferdinand Mount, Times Literary Supplement By the
author of the Orwell Prize-winning Citizen Clem Damned in
coruscating verse by Shelley and Byron, his coffin hissed at during
his funeral, Lord Castlereagh has one of the blackest reputations
in British history. But as John Bew shows, this is but a half-drawn
portrait. His gripping biography reveals a shy, inarticulate but
passionate man; a towering political figure of implacable
principles who redrew the map of Europe, fought a duel with a
cabinet colleague and would tragically take his own life amid
rumours of scandal and madness.
**WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING** **WINNER OF
THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY** *Book of
the year: The Times, Sunday Times, New Statesman, Spectator,
Evening Standard* 'Outstanding . . . We still live in the society
that was shaped by Clement Attlee' Robert Harris, Sunday Times 'The
best book in the field of British politics' Philip Collins, The
Times 'Easily the best single-volume, cradle-to-grave life of
Clement Attlee yet written' Andrew Roberts Clement Attlee was the
Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar
government, delivering the end of the Empire in India, the
foundation of the NHS and Britain's place in NATO. Called 'a sheep
in sheep's clothing', his reputation has long been that of an
unassuming character in the shadow of Churchill. But as John Bew's
revelatory biography shows, Attlee was not only a hero of his age,
but an emblem of it; and his life tells the story of how Britain
changed over the twentieth century. Here, Bew pierces Attlee's
reticence to examine the intellect and beliefs of Britain's
greatest - and least appreciated - peacetime prime minister. This
edition includes a new preface by the author in response to the
2017 general election.
Belfast Politics, arguably one of the most important texts in
modern Irish history, appeared in 1794 as a collection of twenty
essays outlining a moderate political position in the increasingly
polarised politics of 1790s Ireland. It contains the seeds of the
so-called 'transformation' of so many late eighteenth-century
Ulster radicals into the Unionists of the early nineteenth-century.
Although sharing many of the political principles and much of the
language which inspired the United Irishmen, including support for
the American Revolution and the use of civic humanist and
Enlightenment discourse, Bruce and Joy maintained that these ideas
were consistent with, and best served within, the framework of the
British constitution, and their book was unique in bringing an
inclusive notion of 'Britishness' to the mainstream Irish reform
movement.
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