„As we have come to expect from a scholar of his intellectual witand calibre, Coker delivers a masterful, not to mention thoroughlyenjoyable, analysis.“
RUSI Journal
„Christopher Coker is in a class by himself. His nimble, evendazzling arguments are buttressed by a rich body of quotations, allusions and references to English, French and German philosophy, cinema and literature, to the natural sciences and pop-sociology, and sometimes even to more esoteric specialties.“
Survival
"War in an Age of Risk is an imaginative and penetratingstudy of the new strategic context by one of Britain's mostcreative and thoughtful strategic analysts. It is an outstandingwork.„
Philip C. Bobbitt, University of Texas
“Christopher Coker, perhaps the most incisive philosopher of warof our time, explains how the evolution of Western societies hasinfluenced how those societies perceive and wage war. It is likelythat historians, with the benefit of hindsight, will considerWar in an Age of Risk an unusually perspicacious and seminalwork.„
Dr H. R. McMaster, Colonel, US Army
“Drawing on philosophy and sociology as well as militaryhistory, Christopher Coker presents a clear vision of what war willbe all about in years to come. When historians of the future try tounderstand how wars of modern mass armies developed into thenever-ending conflicts of risk societies they will read War inan Age of Risk. Commanders and policy-makers have the goodfortune to be able to read it today."
Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, Head of the Danish Institute forMilitary Studies, University of Texas
War in an Age of Risk
von Christopher CokerIn a rare blend of political science, sociology, history andcultural thought, Christopher Coker peels away the layers ofmeaning shrouding our current understanding of war and warfare. Using the ideas of writers such as Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck andFrank Furedi, he shows that risk has become the language ofbusiness, politics and public policy and so we should not besurprised that it has now become the language of war. The bookhighlights the increasing difference between homeland security andnational security in the modern world, arguing that the defense ofthe citizen is often now more challenging than the defense of thestate. By demonstrating the changing character and complexity ofconflict from World War I to the current the current fight againstterrorism, the book provides a powerful and highly distinctiveaccount of the re-branding of war in an age of risk.
This book is set to ignite debate amongst students and scholarsof international politics as well as appealing to anyone interestedin war and its place in contemporary society.
