Mediterranean anarchy, interstate war, and the rise of Rome

This ground-breaking study is the first to employ modern international relations theory to place Roman militarism and expansion of power within the broader Mediterranean context of interstate anarchy. Arthur M. Eckstein challenges claims that Rome was an exceptionally warlike and aggressive state--n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eckstein, Arthur M., 1946- (-)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley [etc.] : University of California Press 2006
Series:Hellenistic culture and society ; 48
The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
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Online Access:Sumario
See on Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991006106589708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
Table of Contents:
  • Political science and Roman history
  • Realist paradigms of interstate behavior
  • The anarchic structure of interstate relations in classical Greece
  • The anarchic structure of interstate relations in the Hellenistic Age
  • Terrores multi : the rivals of Rome for power in the western Mediterranean
  • Rome and Roman militarism within the anarchic interstate system
  • Roman exceptionalism and nonexceptionalism