Systems of war and peace / Theodore Caplow, Louis Hicks.
2002
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Title
Systems of war and peace / Theodore Caplow, Louis Hicks.
Published
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Call Number
HM36.5 .C37 2002
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
0761821988
Description
xii, 271 pages ; 22 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)49604386
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-251) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Pt. 1
Institutional Patterns
1War 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
2Peace 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
3Theoretical 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
4International 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
5The 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
Pt. 2
Military Systems
6The 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
7Modern 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
8Military 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
9Military 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
10Military Success and Failure
153
The VISA Model
153
Success in Battle
156
Success in War
161
11The 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
Pt. 3
Peacekeeping Systems
12Peace Projects
181
Millennial Movements
181
Peace through Revolution
183
Peace through Democracy
184
Rational Pacifism
184
World Empires
185
World Federation
188
13Peacekeeping 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
14Arms Control
201
Disarmament
201
The Regulation of Arms Races
202
The Prohibition of Atrocious Weapons
205
15Postscript
209
App
The Analysis of Particular Wars
211
References
237
Index
253
About the Authors
273