Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome

Name: Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome
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ISBN: 9780520259928

ISBN-10: 0520259920

ISBN-13: 9780520259928

Edition: 2007

Authors: Arthur M. Eckstein, A. M. Eckstein

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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--not merely in modern but in ancient terms--by arguing that intense militarism and aggressiveness were common among all Mediterranean polities from ca 750 B.C. onwards. In his wide-ranging and masterful narrative, Eckstein explains that international politics in the ancient Mediterranean world was, in political science terms, a multipolar anarchy: international law was minimal, and states struggled…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/7/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 394
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Maps



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 Italy and the Western Mediterranean



Rome and Roman Militarism within the Anarchic Interstate System



Roman Exceptionalism and Nonexceptionalism


Appendix to Chapter 6: Roman Commanding Generals Killed in Battle with Foreign Enemies, 340s-140s B.C.


Bibliography


Index