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Have wars and violence declined?
For over 150 years liberal optimism has dominated theories of war and violence. It has been repeatedly argued that war and violence either are declining or will shortly decline. There have been exceptions, esp...
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Reply to Anatol Lieven
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Have human societies evolved? Evidence from history and pre-history
I ask whether social evolutionary theories found in sociology, archaeology, and anthropology are useful in explaining human development from the Stone Age to the present-day. My data are partly derived from th...
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Infrastructural Power Revisited
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Eliminatorische ethnische Säuberungen: Eine makrosoziologische Erklärung
Der vorliegende Aufsatz entwickelt eine makrosoziologische Strategie zur Erklärung eliminatiorischer ethnischer Säuberungen. In einem ersten Schritt wird gezeigt, dass Ansätze, die den Staat oder eine schwache...
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Strategien der herrschenden Klasse und Citizenship
Im Folgenden wird Marshalls Theorie von Citizenship als zu anglozentrisch und evolutionistisch kritisiert. Eine vergleichende historische Analyse industrieller Gesellschaften eröffnet nicht eine, sondern minde...
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Some Long-term Trends in the Multiple-Boundedness of Societies
»Societies« have always consisted of multiple, overlap**, intersecting networks of interaction, at the boundaries of each of which occurs a certain degree of cleavage. »Societies« have never been unitary but...
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War and Social Theory: Into Battle with Classes, Nations and States
It would be easy to polemicise against ‘orthodox sociology’s’ shameful neglect of war; to lament the paucity of sociology’s contribution to the most urgent social problem of our time — peace; and to deride the...
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Capitalism and Militarism
The aim of this paper is less to write a history of the relationship between capitalism and militarism than to analyse their present relationship in the light of history. More specifically, I seek to answer th...
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