PLEASE NOTE this is a 2013 reading list—the precise content may change in future years.
Topic: WHAT IS WAR AND THE CONTINUED RELEVANCE OF CLAUSEWITZ?
Questions for discussion:
 What is war? How can or should we define it?
 What do you think are the most important elements of Clausewitz’s ideas about war?
 How relevant is Clausewitz’s thinking today?
Essential Reading
 Williams, Paul. ‘War’ in Paul Williams (ed.) Security Studies: An Introduction , 2nd ed.
(Routledge, 2013).
 Freedman, L. (ed.) War (Oxford UP, 1994), pp. 206-212. (Scanned copy available on the library course extracts page.)
 Gray, Colin. ‘Clausewitz Rules, OK? The Future is the Past – with GPS’, Review of
International Studies , 25 (Special Issue December, 1999), p. 161-182.
 Echevarria, A. ‘The Legacy of Clausewitz’, Joint Force Quarterly (1995-6, no.10) p.76-80.
Found at: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/jfq/1810.pdf.
General Reading
 Beyerchen, A. ‘Clausewitz, Nonlinearity and the Unpredictability of War’, International
Security , 17:3 (1992-93), p. 59-90.
 Cimbala, S. Clausewitz and Chaos: friction in war and military policy (Praeger, 2001).
 Clausewitz, C. On War (edited & trans, Princeton UP, 1976).
 Cornish, P. ‘Clausewitz and the Ethics of Armed Force: Five Propositions’, Journal of Military
Ethics , 2:3 (2003), p. 213-26.
 Echevarria, A. (2007) Clausewitz and Contemporary War (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
 Gallie, W. B. Philosophers of Peace and War (Cambridge UP, 1978).
 Gray, Colin. War, Peace and International Relations (Routledge, 2007) ch.2.
 Gray, Colin, ‘How has war changed since the end of the Cold War’, Parameters , 35:1 (2005), p. 14-26.
 Gray, Colin. Modern Strategy (Oxford UP, 1999), p. 26-32.
 Handel, M.I. Masters of War (Frank Cass, 1992, 2001), p. 17-31.

 Handel, M. (ed.) (2005) Clausewitz and Modern Strategy (London: Routledge).
 Howard, M. Clausewitz: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2002).
 Kinross, S. ‘Clausewitz and Low-Intensity Conflict’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 27:1 (2004), p.35-58.
 Mahnken, Thomas. ‘Strategic theory’, in J. Baylis et al, (eds.) Strategy in the Contemporary
World (Oxford, 2007) ch.3.
 Paret, P. Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military
Power (Princeton UP, 1992).
 Reid, J. ‘Foucault on Clausewitz: conceptualizing the relationship between war and power’, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 28:1 (2003), p. 1-28.
 Sheehan, M. ‘The Evolution of Modern Warfare’, in Baylis, J.; Wirtz, C. S. Gray and E. Cohen
(eds.) (2010) Strategy in the Contemporary World (Oxford University Press) Third Edition.
Ch.2.
 Strachan, H. (2007) Carl von Clausewitz’s On War (London: Atlantic Books).
 Strachan, H. and A. Herberg-Rothe (eds.) (2007) Clausewitz in the Twenty-First
Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
 The Clausewitz Web-Site also contains lots of useful information, including the entire text of On War : http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/CWZBASE.htm