<P>This new book captures how the uncertainties associated with the emergence of adversarial interstate relations transformed early civilizations. </P><P>Leading authors compare the interaction of geopolitical and strategic thought in ancient Hebrew, Hindu, Chinese and Greek; and in the Muslim and Christian (Renaissance) civilizations. </P><P>By comparing and contrasting the reflections of the <EM>Book of Samuel</EM>, Kautilya’s <EM>Arthasatra</EM>, Sun Tzu’s <EM>Art of War</EM>, Thucydides’ <EM>The Peloponnesian War</EM>, Ibn Khaldun’s <EM>Muqaddimah</EM>, Machiavelli’s <EM>The Prince and The Art of War</EM>, this work highlights how thinking about war in systematic ways compels the analyst to conceptualize polity, culture and geography in new and surprising ways.</P>