The Ashgate research companion to war: origins and prevention

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Contents: Preface General introduction polemology, Hall Gardner and Oleg Kobtzeff Part I Alienation, Legitimacy, and the Roots of War: Alienation and the origins and prevention of war, Hall Gardner The roots and evolution of conflict: from Cain to the present, Azar Gat Gender and the causes, tactics and consequences of war, Debra L. DeLaet Age of progress or 'age of extremes'?: the escalation of warfare in modern times and the nature of its mutation, Oleg Kobtzeff The state as a cause of war: anarchist and autonomist critiques of war, Andrew Robinson Majority rule - a cause of war?, Peter Emerson The legitimacy of war - toward a new principle for intervention, with its application to the Iraq War of 2003, Troy Davis. Part II Major Wars in History: From innovative democracy to warfare state: ancient Athens as a model of hegemonic decline, Athina Karatzogianni Origins of Arab-Israeli conflicts in the 'Greater Middle East', Marco Rimanelli A 'time of troubles': war in an age of planetary upheaval, from the end of the Middle Ages to 1648, Oleg Kobtzeff Napoleonic wars: art of war, diplomacy and imperialism, Marco Rimanelli War and the sacred: Russian-Ottoman conflict, 1876-1878, Ilya Platov The failure to prevent World War I , Hall Gardner World War I in history, Anthony D'Agostino Totalitarian times - total war, global war: the roots of World War II and the nature of the conflict, Oleg Kobtzeff. Part III Cold War and Beyond...: NATO as a war-preventive organization: Cold War vs. World War III, Marco Rimanelli The Cold War and the media: lessons from America in Vietnam, Steven Ekovich NATO as post-Cold War humanitarian and peacekeeping organization, Marco Rimanelli NOT a clash of civilizations: the conflict in Kosovo revisited, Oleg Kobtzeff Child soldiers: the pursuit of peace and justice for child combatants, Susan Hitchcock Perry The instrumentalization of gender in war, Carol Mann Wars and climate: the effects of climatic change on secu