{"product_id":"on-small-war-carl-von-clausewitz-and-peoples-war-hardcover","title":"On Small War: Carl Von Clausewitz and People's War - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSibylle Scheipers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarl von Clausewitz has long been interpreted as the paradigmatic thinker of major interstate war. This book challenges this assumption by showing that Clausewitz was an ardent analyst of small war and integrated many aspects of his early writings on partisan warfare and people's war into his magnum opus, \u003cem\u003e On War\u003c\/em\u003e. It reconstructs Clausewitz's intellectual development by placing it in the context of his engagement with the political and philosophical currents of his own times - German Idealism, Romanticism, and Humanism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe central question that Clausewitz and his contemporaries faced was how to defend Prussia and Europe against Napoleon's expansionist strategy. On the one hand, the nationalization of war that had occurred as a result of the French Revolution could only be countered by drawing the people into the defence of their own countries. On the other, this risked a descent into anarchy and unchecked terror, as the years 1793 and 1794 in France had shown. Throughout his life Clausewitz remained optimistic that the institution of the Prussian \u003cem\u003e Landwehr\u003c\/em\u003e could achieve both an effective defence of Prussia and a social and political integration of its citizens. Far from leaving behind his early advocacy of people's war, Clausewitz integrated it systematically into his mature theory of war. People's war was war in its existential form; it risked escalating into 'absolute war'. However, if the threat of defensive people's war had become a standard option of last resort in early-nineteenth century Europe, it could also function as a safeguard of the balance of power.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSibylle Scheipers is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. Her publications include \u003cem\u003e Unlawful Combatants\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2015), \u003cem\u003e Prisoners in War\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2010), \u003cem\u003e The Changing Character of War\u003c\/em\u003e (co-edited with Hew Strachan, OUP, 2011), and \u003cem\u003e Heroism and the Changing Character of War\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave, 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.4 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 22, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45862911672517,"sku":"9780198799047","price":188.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/h-xKLtZlSu9780198799047.webp?v=1771575553","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/on-small-war-carl-von-clausewitz-and-peoples-war-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}