Conflict, War and Revolution
Paul Kelly
How ten thinkers, from Thucydides and Augustine to Hobbes, Clausewitz, Lenin, Mao and Carl Schmitt, explain war, violence and revolution, and what their ideas tell us about politics between states today.
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