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Who among the following scholars in his/her book 'Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of…

American constitutional theorist and strategist Philip Bobbitt authored the monumental book 'The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History' (2002),…

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Who among the following scholars in his/her book 'Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History' stated that "The reason epochal wars achieve, in retrospect, a historic importance is because however they may arise, they challenge and ultimately change the basic structure of the State, which is, after all, a war-making institution ?"

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American constitutional theorist and strategist Philip Bobbitt authored the monumental book 'The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History' (2002), containing this exact thesis on epochal wars and the state.

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