Sociological Approaches to Explication of Warfare

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Warfare as the most vicious and the most shocking social phenomenon has terrible effects consequences. This fact has made explicating the nature of warfare and its causes, to receive a wide scholars' attention from different fields. The main purpose of this research is, thus, to study the causes of warfare from the perspective of historical and political sociology and to answer this fundamental question that what causes warfare? The research method used is descriptive and documents and evidence-based. According to the findings, three theories exist that have clearly analyzed causes of warfare: Interstate Relations, Capitalism - Democracy and Decision-making. While these theories vary in terms of analysis level, they are also quite different in the identification of warfare causes. Furthermore, due to the extensive changes that have emerged since the final decades of the twentieth century, the mentioned theories present different predictions of warfare ranging from permanent peace to total warfare. Therefore, the necessity of integrated and combined models of warfare is felt more than ever.
 
 
 

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Historical Study of War
Volume 1, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
January 2017
Pages 19-32

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