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Systems of war and peace / Theodore Caplow, Louis Hicks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caplow, Theodore.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War and society.
- Peace.
- War (International law).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 271 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : University Press of America, [2002]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Institutional Patterns
- 1 War as a Social Institution 3
- The Nature of Social Conflict 3
- The Typical Sequence of Social Conflict 5
- Basic Types of Social Conflict 8
- Clues from Animal Behavior 10
- Is War Instinctive? 11
- The Evolution of War 12
- The Increasing Lethality of War 16
- Types of War 17
- 2 Peace as a Social Institution 21
- The King's Peace 21
- Religious Peace 22
- Immunity and Sanctuary 22
- National Fusion and Fission 23
- Balances of Power 29
- Peace through Deterrence 30
- Peacekeeping Organizations 32
- The Diplomatic Network 33
- The Financial and Commercial Network 35
- Multinational Institutions 35
- Conflict Resolution 36
- 3 Theoretical Models of War and Peace 39
- A Simplified Model of the Interaction of States 39
- A Simplified Model of Internecine War 40
- Objections to the Simplified Models 41
- The Geometry of Coalitions 42
- Expected Utility Theory 46
- The Behavior of National Governments 47
- National Governments as Social Actors 49
- Other Approaches to Explaining War 50
- 4 International Law 53
- Public International Law 53
- Sources of International Law 54
- The Blighted Hopes of 1907 56
- Enforcement of International Law 60
- The Growth of International Law 61
- 5 The Contemporary War System 63
- War in the Late Twentieth Century 63
- High-intensity and Low-intensity War 64
- The Distribution of Military Power 65
- The International Arms Trade 66
- Political Functions of Modern Armed Forces 68
- Public Opinion and War 70
- Part 2 Military Systems
- 6 The Origins of Modern Military Organization 75
- The Roman Legion and the Pax Romana 75
- War in the Dark Ages 78
- Feudal Chivalry 79
- The Condottiere System in Renaissance Italy 81
- Maurice of Nassau and the Choreography of Drill 82
- The American and French Revolutionary Armies 84
- The American Civil War 88
- The Great War 89
- Colonization and Decolonization 90
- 7 Modern Military Organization 95
- Horizontal, Vertical and Zonal Differentiation 95
- Vertical and Horizontal Replication 103
- Horizontal and Vertical Mobility 104
- Social Control in the Armed Forces 105
- Military Law 109
- Observability and Conformity 112
- Research on Military Organizations 113
- Military Sociology 114
- 8 Military Culture 117
- Rituals 117
- Military Etiquette 121
- Military Language 121
- The Stratification of Armed Forces 123
- Other Military Relationships 127
- Battle Experience 130
- The Demography of Armed Forces 131
- Sexuality and the Military 133
- Ethnicity in the Military 135
- Conscription 137
- 9 Military Technology 141
- Material and Social Technology 141
- Technological Evolution 142
- The Age of Discovery 145
- Attack and Defense 146
- Nuclear Weapons 147
- Conventional Weapons 149
- Chemical and Biological Weapons 150
- 10 Military Success and Failure 153
- The VISA Model 153
- Success in Battle 156
- Success in War 161
- 11 The Social Effects of War 163
- War and Social Structure 163
- The Rise of the State 165
- The Costs and Benefits of War 167
- Home Front Effects 168
- Demographic Consequences 168
- Effects of Defeat 170
- The Last War and the Next 170
- War and Religion 171
- War and Education 171
- War and the Family 172
- War and Science 173
- War and Technological Innovation 173
- War and the Economy 174
- War and Leisure 175
- War and Culture 176
- Part 3 Peacekeeping Systems
- 12 Peace Projects 181
- Millennial Movements 181
- Peace through Revolution 183
- Peace through Democracy 184
- Rational Pacifism 184
- World Empires 185
- World Federation 188
- 13 Peacekeeping Organizations 193
- Leagues of Princes 193
- The Holy Alliance and the Concert of Europe 196
- The League of Nations 196
- The United Nations 197
- The Lessons Learned 199
- 14 Arms Control 201
- Disarmament 201
- The Regulation of Arms Races 202
- The Prohibition of Atrocious Weapons 205
- Appendix The Analysis of Particular Wars 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-251) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761821988
- OCLC:
- 49604386
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