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Contenidos : Preliminary sections
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
🔹 Part 1: Moral and Philosophical Inquiries
Introduction
War and Massacre – Thomas Nagel
Anarchism and World Order – Richard A. Falk
Contrasting Approaches to Conflict – Margaret W. Fisher
🔹 Part 2: Ethological and Psychological Inquiries
Introduction
The Lorenzian Theory of Aggression and Peace Research: A Critique – Samuel S. Kim
The Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis – Leonard Berkowitz
The Social Learning Theory of Aggression – Albert Bandura
🔹 Part 3: Cultural and Anthropological Inquiries
Introduction
Anthropology and the Study of Conflict – Robert A. Le Vine
Peaceful Societies – David Fabbro
Internal War: A Cross-Cultural Study
🔹 Part 4: Sociopsychological Inquiries
Introduction
Personality Dynamics and Social Conflict
Psychological Factors in Civil Violence
Aggressive Behaviors Within Politics (Cross-National Study)
🔹 Part 5: Sociological Inquiries
Introduction
The Nature of Conflict
Some Social Functions of Violence
Societal Approaches to the Study of War
🔹 Part 6: Socioeconomic Inquiries
Introduction
The Economic Foundations of Wars
Economic Imperialism
A Structural Theory of Imperialism
🔹 Part 7: Decisionmaking Inquiries
Introduction
Hypotheses on Misperception
Crisis, Stress, and Decisionmaking
Case Studies: Korea and Cuba
🔹 Part 8: International Systemic Inquiries
Introduction
National Images and International Systems
Patterns in International Warfare (1816–1965)
Cause, Surprise, and No Escape
🔹 Part 9: Normative Inquiries
Introduction
International Law and the Control of Force
The Grotian Conception of International Society
Unravelling the Future of World Order
Final sections
Selected Bibliography

This book examines war as part of a broader “war system”—a set of political, economic, and social structures that make armed conflict recurring in international relations.

Instead of seeing wars as isolated events, the contributors argue that:

War is built into the global system (state competition, power struggles, militarization).
Political ideologies, economic interests, and security fears reinforce conflict.
Lasting peace requires systemic change, not just conflict resolution.

The book combines perspectives from political science, law, sociology, and history to explain both the causes of war and possible alternatives, such as stronger international institutions and global cooperation.