- Summary
- This comprehensive volume brings us a much needed analysis of wars throughout the ages, their origins, their consequences, and their relationship to the present. A valuable understanding that is ideal for social scientists from a variety of backgrounds. Part I explicates differing theories as to the origins of war under the general concept of 'polemology'. Part II analyzes significant conflicts from the Peloponnesian wars to World War II. Part III examines the ramifications of Cold War and post-Cold War conflict. Part IV looks at long cycles of systemic conflict, and speculates, in part, whether another global war is theoretically possible, and if so, whether it can be averted.
- Series
- Ashgate research companion
Ashgate research companion.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Gardner, Hall.
- Published
- Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2012
- Contents
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General introduction: Polemology / Hall Gardner, Oleg Kobtzeff
Alienation. legitimacy and the roots of war. Alienation and the origins and prevention of war / Hall Gardner
Roots and evolution of conflict : from Cain to the present / Azar Gat
Gender and the causes, tactics and consequences of war / Debra L. DeLaet
Age of progress or "age of extremes"? The escalation of warfare in modern times and the nature of its mutation / Oleg Kobtzeff
State as a cause of war : anarchist and autonomist critiques of war / Andrew Robinson
Majority rule : a cause of war? / Peter Emerson
Legitimacy of war : toward a new principle for intervention, with its application to the Iraq war pf 2003 / Troy Davis
Major wars in history. From innovative democracy to warfare state : ancient Athens as a model of hegemonic decline / Athina Karatzogianni
Origins of Arab Israeli conflicts in the "greater Middle-East" / Marco Rimanelli
"Time of troubles" : war in an age of planetary upheaval, from the end of the Middle Ages to 1648 / Oleg Kobtzeff
Napoleonic wars : art of war, diplomacy and imperialism / Marco Rimanelli
War and the sacred : Russian Ottoman conflict, 1876-1878 / Ilya Platov
Failure to prevent World War I / Hall Gardner
World War I in world history / Anthony D'Agostino
Totalitarian times : total war, global war : the roots of world War II and the nature of the conflict / Oleg Kobtzeff
Cold War and beyond. NATO as a war preventive organization : Cold War vs World War III / Marco Rimanelli
Cold War and the media : lessons from America in Vietnam / Steven Ekovich
NATO as a post Cold War humanitarian and peacekeeping organization / Marco Rimanelli
NOT a clash of civilizations : the conflict in Kosovo revisited / Oleg Kobtzeff
Child soldiers : the pursuit of peace and justice for child combatants / Susan Hitchcock Perry
Instrumentalization of gender in war / Carol Mann
Wars and climate : the effects of climatic change on security / Ben Cramer
Cyberconflict and the future of warfare / Athina Karatzogianni / Future of asymmetric warfare / Franc̦ois Géré
Long cycles and major power conflict. Metastrategy : sociostrategic systems in the west ; Islamic warfare / Jean-Paul Charnay
Long cycle theory and concentrations/deconcentration of economic and political military resources / William R. Thompson
Preventing global war / George Modelski
Reflections on polemology : breaking the long cycles of wars of Initial challenge and Wars of revanche / Hall Gardner.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kobtzeff, Oleg.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
General introduction: Polemology / Hall Gardner, Oleg Kobtzeff -- Alienation. legitimacy and the roots of war. Alienation and the origins and prevention of war / Hall Gardner -- Roots and evolution of conflict : from Cain to the present / Azar Gat -- Gender and the causes, tactics and consequences of war / Debra L. DeLaet -- Age of progress or "age of extremes"? The escalation of warfare in modern times and the nature of its mutation / Oleg Kobtzeff -- State as a cause of war : anarchist and autonomist critiques of war / Andrew Robinson -- Majority rule : a cause of war? / Peter Emerson -- Legitimacy of war : toward a new principle for intervention, with its application to the Iraq war pf 2003 / Troy Davis -- Major wars in history. From innovative democracy to warfare state : ancient Athens as a model of hegemonic decline / Athina Karatzogianni -- Origins of Arab Israeli conflicts in the "greater Middle-East" / Marco Rimanelli -- "Time of troubles" : war in an age of planetary upheaval, from the end of the Middle Ages to 1648 / Oleg Kobtzeff -- Napoleonic wars : art of war, diplomacy and imperialism / Marco Rimanelli -- War and the sacred : Russian Ottoman conflict, 1876-1878 / Ilya Platov -- Failure to prevent World War I / Hall Gardner -- World War I in world history / Anthony D'Agostino -- Totalitarian times : total war, global war : the roots of world War II and the nature of the conflict / Oleg Kobtzeff -- Cold War and beyond. NATO as a war preventive organization : Cold War vs World War III / Marco Rimanelli -- Cold War and the media : lessons from America in Vietnam / Steven Ekovich -- NATO as a post Cold War humanitarian and peacekeeping organization / Marco Rimanelli -- NOT a clash of civilizations : the conflict in Kosovo revisited / Oleg Kobtzeff -- Child soldiers : the pursuit of peace and justice for child combatants / Susan Hitchcock Perry -- Instrumentalization of gender in war / Carol Mann -- Wars and climate : the effects of climatic change on security / Ben Cramer -- Cyberconflict and the future of warfare / Athina Karatzogianni / Future of asymmetric warfare / Franc̦ois Géré -- Long cycles and major power conflict. Metastrategy : sociostrategic systems in the west ; Islamic warfare / Jean-Paul Charnay -- Long cycle theory and concentrations/deconcentration of economic and political military resources / William R. Thompson -- Preventing global war / George Modelski -- Reflections on polemology : breaking the long cycles of wars of Initial challenge and Wars of revanche / Hall Gardner.
