Strikingly, writers across the entire period of his study wrestled with the same set of questions. Some of the writers that he considers are Lucan, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Emer de Vattel, John Stuart Mill, Francis Lieber, and several modern social scientists. Armitage cogently demonstrates that Roman thought regarding civil wars heavily influenced modern Western thinking on the subject. Civil War, and the civil wars of the Roman Republic, though he discusses many other conflicts as well. The book focuses especially on the English Civil War, the American Revolution, the U.S. He defends his Western focus by showing that Western thought has shaped the modern international norms and international institutions to which we look to address contemporary civil conflicts. He reasonably argues that such a work is valuable because most current wars are civil wars that tend to be long, deadly, prone to recurrence, and especially disruptive to the societies in which they are fought. Armitage’s latest book is a history of modern Western thought about civil wars from the seventeenth century to the present day.
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