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Index
Coverpage
Half title
Title page
Imprints page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Barbarians
1 The Nature of the Premodern Strategic Environment
1.1 How to Define Premodern History?
1.2 The Proliferation of Strategic Actors
1.3 Objectives
2 Barbarians and the Character of the Competition
2.1 The Barbarians
2.1.1 Small
2.1.2 Highly Mobile
2.1.3 Decentralized Organizational Structure
2.2 The Challenges
2.2.1 Use of Force
2.2.2 Deterrence
2.2.3 Diplomacy
2.3 The Consequences
3 The Return of Premodern History?
3.1 The Rise of New Actors
3.1.1 Proliferation of Violence
3.1.2 Ungoverned Spaces
3.2 The Rise of New Objectives
3.3 The Future Premodern Strategic Landscape
3.3.1 Diplomacy
3.3.2 Deterrence
3.3.3 Likelihood and Levels of Violence
4 Altering the State
4.1 The Security Environment as the Demiurge of Polities
4.2 Decentralization at the Tactical Level: Spargere Bellum
4.3 The Political Organization
4.4 The End of the Roman Empire
4.5 The Barbarians
4.6 Roman Responses and Decentralization
4.7 Western vs. Eastern Roman Empire
4.8 Conclusion
5 Three Saints and the Barbarian Threat
5.1 Saint Augustine of Hippo
5.2 Sidonius Apollinaris of Clermont-Ferrand
5.3 Severinus of Noricum
5.4 The Local Search for Security
6 Settlements, Local Forces, Fortifications, and Altering the Environment
6.1 Frontier Fortifications and Local Forces
6.2 Strategy of Sedentarization: Settling Barbarians Down
6.3 Altering Environment
7 Conclusion
Index
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