Christopher Coker

**Christopher Coker** (28 March 1953 – 5 September 2023) was a British political scientist and philosopher. He wrote 27 single-authored books on war. He was a NATO Fellow in 1981. Between 1982 to 2019, he taught international relations at London School of Economics (LSE). After retiring from his teaching job, Coker was still a director of a think tank of LSE until his death.

## Ideas and research

In a 2019 book, Coker investigated how Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin challenge the Weste with ideas of civilizational states.

In a 2021 book, Coker said that war is the result of human nature. Therefore, he believed that human will not see the end of war until it runs out its evolutionary possibilities.

## Single-authored books

- _Why War?_ (Oxford University Press, 2021)
- _The Rise of the Civilizational State_ (Polity, 2019)
- _Rebooting Clausewitz: 'On War' in the Twenty-First Century_ (Oxford University Press, 2017)
- _The Improbable War: China, the United States and the Continuing Logic of Great Power Conflict_ (Oxford University Press, 2014)
- _Can War be Eliminated?_ (Polity, 2014)
- _Globalisation and Insecurity in the Twenty-First Century: NATO and the Management of Risk_ (Routledge, 2014)
- _Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us about Conflict, from the Lliad to Catch-22_ (Oxford University Press, 2014)
- _Warrior Geeks: How 21st-century Technology is Changing the Way We Fight and Think about War_ (Oxford University Press, 2013)
- _War in an Age of Risk_ (Polity, 2013)
- _Barbarous Philosophers: Reflections on the Nature of War from Heraclitus to Heisenberg_ (Columbia University Press, 2010)
- _Ethics and War in the 21st Century_ (Routledge, 2008)
- _The Warrior Ethos: Military Culture and the War on Terror_ (Routledge, 2007)
- _The Future War:_ _The Re-Enchantment of War in the Twenty-First Century_ (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)
- _Empires in Conflict: The Growing Rift between Europe and the United States_ (Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, 2003)
- _Waging War Without Warriors? The Changing Culture of Military Conflict_ (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002)
- _Humane Warfare: The New Ethics of Postmodern War_ (Routledge, 2001)
- _Twilight of The West_ (Basic Books, 1998)
- War And The Illiberal Conscience (Avalon Publishing, 1998)
- War and the 20th Century: A Study of War and Modern Consciousness (Brassey's, 1994)
- _A Farewell to Arms Control: The Irrelevance of CFE_ (Alliance Publishers Limited, 1991)
- _Reflections on American Foreign Policy Since 1945_ (Pinter, 1989)
- _British Defence Policy in the 1990s: A Guide to the Defence Debate_ (Potomac Books, 1987)
- _South Africa's Security Dilemmas_ (Praeger, 1987)
- _NATO, the Warsaw Pact and Africa_ (Palgrave Macmillan, 1985)
- _The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and the New International Economic Order_ (Praeger, 1984)
- _The Future of the Atlantic Alliance_ (Palgrave Macmillan, 1984)
- _US Military Power in the 1980s_ (Palgrave Macmillan, 1983)

## Infobox (academic)

- **image**: Christopher Coker, IEIS conference «Russia and the EU the question of trust»-101.jpg
- **caption**: 2014
- **main interests**: War
- **workplaces**: London School of Economics