The Ashgate research companion to war : origins and prevention / by Hall Gardner and Oleg Kobtzeff.

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.