Roots of War
Wanting Power, Seeing Threat, Justifying Force
Ever since Thucydides pondered reasons for the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, writers, philosophers, and social scientists have tried to identify factors that promote conflict escalation: for example, history (tomorrow's wars are often rooted in yesterday's conflicts), changing balance of power among nations, or domestic political forces. In the end, however, these causes are constructed by human beings and involve the memories, emotions, and motives of both the leaders and the led.In July 1914, the long-standing peace of Europe was shattered when the Sarajevo assassinations quickly escalated to World War I. In contrast, at the height of…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-935576-1
- EAN: 9780199355761
- Produktnummer: 29341276
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 22'249 KB
Über den Autor
David G. Winter is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities, and is a former Rhodes Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow. He has carried out extensive research on several political psychology topics, including power motivation, war and peace, political leadership, and authoritarianism in political life. He is a past president of theInternational Society of Political Psychology.
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