The Art of Creating Power explores the intellectual thought and wider impact - on military affairs, politics and the universities - of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on strategy, conflict and international politics. In this volume, senior scholars of international relations and military history trace the long trajectory of Freedman's career and scholarly contribution. "For more than four decades Lawrence Freedman has been a scholarly authority across a large range of security-related subjects, an advisor to those who govern, and a respected commentator, one of the great and the good in the best sense. His historical writings are canonical; his theoretical oeuvre has almost the status of holy writ; and this well-deserved tribute reflects how he has influenced the way we think about and "do" theory, strategy, intervention and deterrence." -- Brendan Simms, Professor in the History of International Relations, University of Cambridge Explores the thought of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on strategy Benedict Wilkinson is Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London and holds a Research Fellowship in the Policy Institute at King's. James Gow is Professor of International Peace and Security at King's College London. He is the author of several books on the former Yugoslavia, among them The Serbian Project and its Adversaries: A Strategy of War Crimes (Hurst, 2003), Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav Way (Hurst, 1997) and Legitimacy and the Military: The Yugoslav Crisis (1992). He was the first prosecution witness to be called at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.