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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

by Daniel Yergin · 23 Dec 2008 · 1,445pp · 469,426 words

short, was psychological and diplomatic, much more than military." Sadat's decision was calculated; he was operating on Clausewitz's dictum that war was the continuation of politics by other means. Yet, at the same time, he made his decision with a profound sense of fatalism; he knew he was gambling. While the possibility of a

We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent

by Nesrine Malik · 4 Sep 2019

of conflict abroad which confers a sense of purpose at home. The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz coined the aphorism that war is the continuation of politics by other means. From the late 1800s, imperialist expansion into the Americas, Africa and the Indian sub-continent was war as an outsourcing of politics by other means

The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era

by Craig Nelson · 25 Mar 2014 · 684pp · 188,584 words

thousands of years peoples have resolved their conflicts by armed clashes. There was good reason for Karl von Clausewitz to write that war is a continuation of politics by other means. With the invention of nuclear weapons, politicians suddenly realized that war would no longer lead to victory, that both sides would lose. But they didn

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

by Parag Khanna · 18 Apr 2016 · 497pp · 144,283 words

today than a century ago because they immediately harm one’s own businesses operating in the rival country. Clausewitz’s dictum that “war is the continuation of politics by other means” must be updated: War is the continuation of tug-of-war by other means. * * * *1 The regions they are warring over, those squeezed in between

Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975

by Hannah Arendt · 6 Mar 2018 · 653pp · 218,559 words

not all, of its time-honored justifications. Neither the ancient wisdom of “better death than slavery” nor the nineteenth-century definition of war as the “continuation of politics by other means” can possibly apply to the kind of wholesale destruction with which we may be confronted. The former, moreover, has its origin in the situation of

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proceeds from the actualities of war in the nineteenth century and hence does not take into account the possibility of complete annihilation. War is the continuation of politics by other means only in the kind of limited armed contests, conducted according to the rules of the game, that we have known during a relatively brief period

The City

by Tony Norfield · 352pp · 98,561 words

doubt see militarism, covert operations and the use of political ‘clout’ as important tools for sustaining it. War, as von Clausewitz famously wrote, is a continuation of politics by other means, and politics, in Lenin’s phrase, is ‘a concentrated expression of economics’. There can be little doubt that Lord West also appreciates these links, although

Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri · 1 Jan 2004 · 475pp · 149,310 words

so-called realist theorists who focus on the central importance of war in international affairs. Carl von Clausewitz’s famous claim that war is the continuation of politics by other means, for example, might suggest that politics and war are inseparable, but really, in the context of Clausewitz’s work, this notion is based, first of

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relation. Some contemporary authors try to express this novelty by reversing the Clausewitz formula that we cited earlier: it may be that war is a continuation of politics by other means, but politics itself is increasingly becoming war conducted by other means.16 War, that is to say, is becoming the primary organizing principle of society

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. To define war by biopower and security changes war’s entire legal framework. In the modern world the old Clausewitz adage that war is a continuation of politics by other means represented a moment of enlightenment insofar as it conceived war as a form of political action and/or sanction and thus implied an international legal

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

by John J. Mearsheimer · 1 Jan 2001 · 637pp · 199,158 words

necessitates going to war, which is considered an acceptable instrument of statecraft. To quote Carl von Clausewitz, the nineteenth-century military strategist, war is a continuation of politics by other means.29 Finally, a zero-sum quality characterizes that competition, sometimes making it intense and unforgiving. States may cooperate with each other on occasion, but at

How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)

by Benjamin Peters · 2 Jun 2016 · 518pp · 107,836 words

. The Red King’s Book, or Botvinnik and the Soviet Case of Computer Chess If war, in Carl von Clausewitz’s famous phrase, is a continuation of politics by other means, then perhaps the most visible continuation of cold war politics by means of a game is chess (second to Go, the world’s most popular

Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West

by Timothy Garton Ash · 30 Jun 2004 · 329pp · 102,469 words

entangled with organized crime and profiteering. Nonetheless, for most terrorist leaders, most of the time, terror is like war in Clausewitz’s famous definition: the continuation of politics by other means. If you look more closely at the politics of early-twenty-first century terrorism, the distinction between domestic and international soon becomes blurred. Domestic in