Philip Bobbitt

Author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History

9 Works 1,255 Members 20 Reviews 2 Favorited

About the Author

Philip Bobbitt teaches constitutional law at the University of Texas, where he holds the A.W. Walker Centennial Chair. He served as associate counsel to the President for intelligence and international security, Counsel to the Senate Select Committee on the Iran-Contra Affair, and Counselor on show more International Law at the Department of State. He lives in Austin, Texas. show less

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Works by Philip Bobbitt

Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century (2008) 347 copies

The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made (2013) 74 copies

Tragic Choices (1977) 49 copies

Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution (1982) 42 copies

Constitutional Interpretation (1991) 8 copies

Democracy and Deterrence: The History and Future of Nuclear Strategy (1988) 5 copies

US nuclear strategy : a reader (1989) 4 copies

American Nuclear Strategy: A Reader (1989) 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Bobbitt, Philip Chase
Birthdate: 1948-07-22
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Temple, Texas, USA
Places of residence: USA
England, UK
Education: Princeton University (AB|1971)
Yale University (JD|1975)
Oxford University (DPhil)
Occupations: legal scholar
law professor
lawyer
Organizations: Oxford University
King's College London
University of Texas
Columbia University
Awards and honors: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course… by Philip Bobbitt

A curious analysis of the history of the world and its conflicts, and an attempt to predict the possible futures. Predicting the future is bound to fail as no one can clearly foresee new developments. A pattern that does emerge is the gradual growth in the size of communities, from families, to villages, to principalities, kingdoms, countries, states and nations and to world alliances. If this is continued eventually perhaps the world will be a single unit. For this however the interests of individuals must be subjugated to the interests of the whole. Will that happen is another question.… (more)

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David-Block | 9 other reviews | Jan 25, 2024 |

The shield of Achilles : war, peace, and the course… by Philip Bobbitt

almost unreadable

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Baku-X | 9 other reviews | Jan 10, 2017 |

The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course… by Philip Bobbitt

Magisterial in scope the author surveys law and war and the newly emerging market state of the 21st Century. Could have been two books as the author states.

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gmicksmith | 9 other reviews | Dec 14, 2014 |

The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt

almost unreadable