Philip Bobbitt

Philip Bobbitt holds the Walker Chair in constitutional law at University of Texas. He has held several senior posts at the National Security council..

United States security for a new world: a reply to Charles Pena

The National Security Strategy (NSS) articulated by President Bush in September 2002 mixes innovative and interesting responses to the changed strategic environment with a good deal of the unnecessary and

By Philip Bobbitt

/ 28 May 2003

Time to act

It is 12 January 2003 and US president Bush has rallied his troops for what he calls “The first war of the 21st century”. What is your view of this crisis, where, briefly, do you stand? This is the question we are putting to people around the world, especially those with their own public reputatio

By Philip Bobbitt

/ 12 Jan 2003

America first: the case to answer

Opposition to the Bush administrations strategy on Iraq is growing both inside America and around the world. Criticism of its pre-emptive approach tends to be scornful of its intellectual

By Paul Hirst and Philip Bobbitt

/ 7 Nov 2002

Bobbitt on Bobbitt

The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt: buy it from Amazon One of the difficulties with talking about The Shield of Achilles is that it doesnt have what is

By Philip Bobbitt

/ 4 Nov 2002