Edward Luttwak
Edward Nicolae Luttwak (born
1942) is an
economist and
historian known for his many publications on
military strategy and
international relations.
He was born Arad, Romania, and later attended the London School of Economics and John Hopkins University, where he received a doctorate. His first academic post was at the University of Bath. As of 2004, he is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
He is a frequent lecturer and consultant, and has developed a reputation for offbeat proposals intended to provoke thought, for instance suggesting that major powers' attempts to quell regional wars actually make the wars more intense. His book Coup d'etat is perhaps his best-known work; it has been reprinted numerous times, and translated into 14 languages.
Books
- The Dictionary of Modern War (London 1971)
- The Political Uses of Sea Power (Baltimore, 1974)
- The US - USSR Nuclear Weapons Balance (Beverly Hills, 1974)
- The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire from the First Century AD to the Third (USA, 1976)
- Strategic Power: Military Capabilities and Political Utility (California, 1976)
- Coup d'etat: A Practical Handbook (London 1979)
- Sea Power in the Mediterranean: Political Utility and Military Constraints (California 1979)
- The Israeli Army (with Dan Horowitz) (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1983)
- The Grand Strategy of the Soviet Union (London, 1983)
- The Pentagon and the Art of War (New York, 1984)
- Strategy and History (New Jersey, 1985)
- Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987)
- The Endangered American Dream: How to Stop the United States From Being a Third World Country and How to Win the Geo-Economic Struggle for Industrial Supremacy (New York, 1993)
- Turbo-Capitalism: winners and losers in the global economy (HarperCollins, 1999)
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