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The Use of Force for State Power: History and Future

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The Use of Force for State Power: History and Future - Warner, Michael, and Childress, John
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This book studies force, the coercive application of power against resistance, building from Thomas Hobbes' observation that all self-contained political orders have some ultimate authority that uses force to both dispense justice and to defend the polity against its enemies. This cross-disciplinary analysis finds that rulers concentrate force through cooperation, conveyance, and comprehension, applying common principles across history. Those ways aim to keep foes from concerting their actions, or by eliminating the trust ...

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The Use of Force for State Power: History and Future 2021, Palgrave MacMillan, Cham

ISBN-13: 9783030454128

2020 edition

Trade paperback

The Use of Force for State Power: History and Future 2020, Palgrave MacMillan, Cham

ISBN-13: 9783030454098

2020 edition

Hardcover