Thucydides on Strategy: Athenian and Spartan Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and Their Relevance Today

by: Platias, A.G. Koliopoulos, C.

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WHICH IS THE BEST TREATISE ON STRATEGY? 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.

PREFACE
1. GRAND STRATEGY: A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS
2. ATHENS AND SPARTA: POWER STRUCTURES, EARLY CONFLICT AND THE CAUSES OF WAR
3. PERICLEAN GRAND STRATEGY
4. SPARTAN GRAND STRATEGY
5. THUCYDIDES & STRATEGY IN PERSPECTIVE
ANNEX - STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN THUCYDIDES' HISTORY
CHRONOLOGY
MAP
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Thucydides on Strategy: Athenian and Spartan Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and Their Relevance Today

by: Platias, A.G. Koliopoulos, C.

• ISBN-13: 9789608187160 / 978-960-8187-16-0
• ISBN-03: 9608187168 / 960-8187-16-8
• Eurasia Publications, Athens, 2006

Price: 19,50 EURO

1 copy in stock