Coker on War

Michael John Williams PhD is Associate Professor of International Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.Christopher Ankersen PhD is a Clinical Professor of Global Affairs at New York University. They wrote their doctorates at the London School of Economics under Christopher Coker’s supervision.

• ForewordMichael CoxIntroduction: Another Story Waiting to be ToldChristopher Ankersen and Michael John Williams1: Coker on ClausewitzAntulio J. Echevarria II2: Coker on the WarriorAntoine Bousquet3: Coker on HumanityChristopher Ankersen4: Coker on the Dystopian and Western StrategiesMikkel Vedby Rasmussen5: Coker on Strategic ThinkingRune Henriksen6. Coker on War and PhilosophyAaron McKeil and Erica Benner7: Coker on War as Risk ManagementDavid H. Ucko8. Coker on the Improbable War with ChinaYee-Kuang Heng9. Coker on the Civilizational StateTerrence McNamee10. Coker on the Twilight of the WestMichael John WilliamsEpilogue: No Farewell to Arms?Caroline Kennedy-Pipe

'Christopher Coker was an unusual, idiosyncratic scholar; his work was literary, imaginative and allusive. He contemplated questions he believed were definitive of our human condition: war, violence and strategy. In this poignant valediction to a fine scholar and a wonderful man, those colleagues who knew and loved him best explore Christopher's rich and profound body of work. It is an elegy to a scholar the likes of whom we won't see again.'