War

Books:

Addams. Peace and Bread in Time of War (1922);

Allison, Graham  Essence of Decision (1971);

Andreski, S. Military Organization and Society. (1954);

Aron. The Century of Total War (1954, in French 1951);

     -     Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations (1966, in French 1962);

Arrighi. Geometry of Imperialism (1978);

Balch. Approaches to the Great Settlement (1918);

Beer, Francis A. Peace Against War: The Ecology of International Violence (1981);

Barash, David P., and Charles P. Webel. Peace and Conflict Studies (2002);

Baudrilard. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (2012, in French 1991);

Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce  ‘‘Theories of International Conflict: An Analysis and Appraisal.’’ In Gurr, Ted Robert (ed.) Handbook of Political Conflict (1980);

     -     The War Trap (1981);

Clausewitz, Carl von. On War (1976, in German 1832);

Cockburn. From Where We Stand: War, Womens's Activism and Feminist Analysis (2007);

     -     Antimilitarism: Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements (2012);

     -     Looking to London: Stories of War, Escape and Asylum' (2017);

Comte. Introduction to Positive Philosophy, 1988, in French (1830-1842);

Durkheim. Suicide, a Study in Sociology (2007, in French 1897);

Eckhardt, William. “War-related Deaths Since 3,000 B.C“, in Peace Research (1991);

Ehrenreich. Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (1997);

Eisenstadt. The Political Systems of Empires (1963);

Eisenstein. Against Empire: Feminism, Racism and the West (2004);

     -     Feminism and War: Confronting US Imperialism (2013);

Engels. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (2010, in German 1884);

Giddens. A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism, 2 vols. (1981, 1985);

Gilpin, Robert. War and Change in World Politics (1981);

Golstein, Joshua. Long Cycles (1988);

Gumplowicz. Outlines of Sociology (2020, in German 1885);

Hobson. The South African War: Causes and Effects (1900);

     -     The Psychology of Jingoism (1901);

     -     Imperialism: A Study (1902);

Huntington. The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations (1957);

Janis, Irving. Victims of Groupthink (1972);

Janowitz. The Professional Soldier (1960);

     -     The New Military (1964);

     -     Military Conflict (1975);

     -     Civil-Military Relations (1981);

Joas, H. War and Modernity (2003);

Kaldor, M. New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era (1999);

Kalyvas, S. N. ‘‘New’’ and ‘‘Old’’ Civil Wars: A Valid Distinction?, in World Politics (2001);

Kellner. The Persian Gulf TV War (1992);

     -     From September 11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy (2003);

Kidd. Social Evolution (1894);

Lenin, V. I. Imperialism (1939, in Russian 1917);

Levy, Jack S. ‘‘The Causes of War: A Review of Theories and Evidence.’’ In Philip E. Tetlock, Robert Jarvis, Paul Stern, and Charles Tilly (eds.) Behavior, Society and Nuclear War (1989);

Mann. The Sources of Social Power, Vol. 1: A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760 (1986);

     -     Incoherent Empire (2003);

     -     Fascists (2004);

     -     The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing (2004);

Martin. Does Christianity Cause War? (1997);

Mauss. The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies (2018, in French 1925);

Merton. Mass Persuasion (1946);

Mills. The Causes of World War Three (1958);

Morgenthau, Hans. Politics among Nations (1967);

Myrdal A. The Game of Disarmament: How the United States and Russia Run the Arms Race (1977); 

     -     Wars, Weapons, and Everyday Violence (1977); 

     -     Dynamics of European Nuclear Disarmament (1981);

Oberschall. Conflict and Peacebuilding in Divided Societies: Responses to Ethnic Violence (2007);

Oppenheimer. The State (2018, in German 1907);

Organski, J. F. K. World Politics (1968);

Piven. The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism (2004);

Porter, B. D. War and the Rise of the State: The Military Foundations of Modern Politics (1994);

Russell, Bertrand. "War and Non-Resistance", in Atlantic Monthly (1915);

Shaw, M. War and Genocide: Organized Killing in Modern Society (2003);

Singer, J. David, and Melvin Small. The Wages of War, 1816–1965: A Statistical Handbook (1972);

Skocpol. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (1979);

Sombart. Krieg und Kapitalismus (1913); 

Sorokin. Social and Cultural Dynamics, 4 vols. (1937-1941);

     -     The Crisis of Our Age (1941);

     -     Man and Society in Calamity: The Effects of War, Revolution, Famine, Pestilence Upon Human Mind, Behavior, Social Organization and Cultural Life (1942);

Spencer. Principles of Sociology, 3 vols. (1876-1896);

Spengler. The Decline of the West (2021, in German 1918, 1922);

Stouffer. Studies in Social Psychology in World War II: The American Soldier, Vols. 4 (1949);

Sumner. War and Other Essays (1913);

Tilly. European Revolutions: 1492–1992 (1993);

     -     The Politics of Collective Violence (2003);

Tocqueville. The Old Regime and the French Revolution (2014, in French 1856); 

Toffler. War and Anti-War (1995);

Tönnies. Warlike England as Seen by Herself (1915);

Toynbee. Nationality and the War (1915);

     -     A Study of History, 12 vols. (1934-1961);

Virilio. Pure War: Twenty-Five Years Later (2007);

Wallerstein. Decline of American Power (2003);

Waltz, Kenneth  Man, the State, and War (1959);

Wittfogel. Oriental Despotism (1957);

Wolf. Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century (1969);

Wright, Quincy. A Study of War (1964);

Zinn, Howard. Just War (2005).

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