Beatrice Heuser: 4 books

Book cover of The Evolution of Strategy

The Evolution of Strategy

Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present

by Beatrice Heuser
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010

Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial 2010 account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military...
Book cover of Reading Clausewitz
by Beatrice Heuser
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011

Clausewitz's On War, first published in 1832, remains the most famous study of the nature and conditions of warfare. Contemporaries found him 'endearing' or 'totally unpalatable', while later generations called him 'the father of modern strategical study', whose tenets have 'eternal relevance', or...
Book cover of Strategy Before Clausewitz

Strategy Before Clausewitz

Linking Warfare and Statecraft, 1400-1830

by Beatrice Heuser
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

This collection of essays combines historical research with cutting-edge strategic analysis and makes a significant contribution to the study of the early history of strategic thinking. There is a debate as to whether strategy in its modern definition existed before Napoleon and Clausewitz....
Book cover of Ukraine : premières leçons - Kurdistan(s) - Politique étrangère 2/2014
by Cyril Roussel, Dorothée Schmid, Jordi Tejel
Language: French
Release Date: July 15, 2014

Dans son numéro 2/2014, Politique étrangère consacre sa nouvelle rubrique Contrechamps à la crise ukrainienne, passée au crible d’une expérience ukrainienne, d’un point de vue russe, d’une analyse européenne. La question kurde témoigne d’évolutions souterraines. Politique étrangère...
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