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Dimensions of War : understanding War as a Complex Adaptiv System

Title: Dimensions of War : understanding War as a Complex Adaptiv System / Samuel Solvit.
Author: Solvit, Samuel.
Publication: Paris : Harmattan, c2012.

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Description

149 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Diplomacy and strategy

Subject

War (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-146).

Contents

Pt. 1. The simplification and reduction of war conceptualization -- 1. Classic Conceptions of War -- Toward Peace: Hobbes, Kant and Montesquieu -- Hobbes -- Kant -- Montesquieu -- War as a Tool: Machiavelli and Clausewitz -- Machiavelli -- Clausewitz -- The Use of Conflict Through the Perspective of Historical Materialism: Lenin's Wars and Revolutions -- 2. Contemporary Perspectives -- The International System Induces War: The Neo-Realism of Kenneth Waltz -- War 1s What States Make of The Constructivist Perspective -- War and Economics -- War as a Destructive Phenomenon: Peace Research and Conflict Resolution Studies -- Pt. 2. A generative social phenomenon, uncertain and self-modifying -- Introduction -- 3. The Dimensions of War -- A Space-Time Construct -- A Social Process -- 4. A Productive Phenomenon -- Uncertain, Autonomous, and Self-Modifying -- Unpredictable -- Autonomous and Self-Modeing -- War and Politics: A Dialectical Approach -- 5. Understanding War as a Complex Adaptive System -- The Notion of Complexity -- Complex Adaptive System -- Pt. 3. The second Congo war and the us-Vietnam war -- Introduction -- 6. The Second Congo War (1998-2003) -- Actors' Trajectories and Interactions -- War System -- Economy Throughout War -- War Complex -- 7. The US-Vietnam War (1954-1973) -- The Morass of Vietnam -- A Domestic Fight -- Reasons for War: From the Origins to the End.

Call Number

ReCAP 13-50561

ISBN

9782296997219 (pbk.)

OCLC

820122625

Author

Solvit, Samuel.

Title

Dimensions of War : understanding War as a Complex Adaptiv System / Samuel Solvit.

Imprint

Paris : Harmattan, c2012.

Series

Diplomacy and strategy

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-146).

Research Call Number

ReCAP 13-50561

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