Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century

by Philip Bobbitt

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The wars against terror have begun, but it will take some time before the nature and composition of these wars is widely understood. The objective of these wars is not the conquest of territory, or the silencing of any particular ideology, but rather to secure the necessary environment for states to operate according to principles of consent and make it impossible for our enemies to impose or induce states of terror. "Terror and Consent" argues that, like so many states and civilizations in the past that suffered defeat, we are fighting the last war, with weapons and concepts that...Read more
  • ISBN10 1846140633
  • ISBN13 9781846140631
  • Publish Date 19 May 2008
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 29 April 2010
  • Publish Country AU
  • Publisher Penguin Books Australia
  • Imprint Viking/Allen Lane
  • Edition Australian ed
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 560
  • Language English