More on war
Journal: International Affairs
Year: 2017

In 2014, around the time Russia annexed Crimea, John Kerry loftily reminded the world that nineteenth-century forms of diplomacy and statecraft were obsolete and Great Powers no longer pursued war and territorial annexation. Since then, however, international relations has not been too kind to idealists. In a world where war still remains the ultimate form of statecraft and the reality of geopolitics, the study of war remains one of the most important academic enquiries. Interestingly, no new, c