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14 lis 2024 · War - Conflict, Causes, Consequences: Contemporary theories of the causes of war divide roughly into two major schools. One attributes war to certain innate biological and psychological factors or drives, the other attributes it to certain social relations and institutions.
14 paź 2022 · This article argues that war is a last resort and the costlier that war, the harder both sides will work to avoid it. It identifies five reasons for war: unaccountable, ideological, uncertain, biased, or unreliable leaders or societies.
14 lis 2024 · War, in the popular sense, a conflict between political groups involving hostilities of considerable duration and magnitude. Sociologists usually apply the term to such conflicts only if they are initiated and conducted in accordance with socially recognized forms.
War is an armed conflict [a] between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups. [2]
This chapter surveys the theory of war from a rationalist perspective, focusing on the causes of bargaining failure and the role of information, enforcement, indivisibilities, agency, and multilateral interactions. It also discusses the implications for the democratic peace and the endogenous armaments and power.
During the two World Wars, armed conflict was a leading cause of death, with several million deaths per year. And while armed conflict is a rare cause of death globally in most years, it is much more common in some countries.
This chapter examines what causes war, focusing on war, or armed conflict, between sovereign states. The main part of this chapter is divided into the following four sections: ‘War, sovereignty and sociability’, ‘Necessary causes of war?’, ‘Regular causal paths to war?’, and ‘Contributory causes of war’.
