Why We Fight

David Churchman

doi:10.5771/9780761861386

Summary

This book draws on twenty-four academic disciplines to provide a critical analysis of some 100 theories that explain the origins, nature, and management of human conflict. The book treats intellectual, individual, moral, interpersonal, organizational, community, political, and international conflicts. It suggests six criteria for distinguishing good from bad theory and discusses how existing theories may be used and improved.

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Copyright year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-6137-9
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-6138-6
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 321
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Useful No access
2. Empirical No access
3. Logical No access
4. Falsifiable No access
5. Parsimonious No access
6. Generalizable No access
1. Three major roles for Mathematics in Conflict Theory No access
2. Risk No access
3. Prisoners' Dilemma No access
4. Bayes's Theorem No access
5. Lattice Theory No access
6. Pareto Optimization No access
7. Strategic Choice No access
8. Fair Division No access
1. Aggression No access
2. Early Man No access
3. Biology of Aggression No access
4. Sociobiology No access
5. Aggression in Primates No access
1. Aggression as Instinct No access
2. Frustration-Aggression No access
3. Aggression as Learned Behavior No access
4. Human Needs Theory No access
5. Psychiatric Theories No access
1. Man No access
2. History No access
3. Society No access
4. Nature No access
5. God No access
6. The Importance of Dissent No access
1. The Origins of Morality No access
2. Individual Moral Development No access
3. Four Forms of Moral Conflict No access
4. Managing Moral Conflicts No access
1. Personality and Conflict No access
2. Personality Types and their Measurement No access
3. The "Generation Gap" No access
4. Low Conflict Societies No access
5. Family Conflict No access
6. Dual Variable Models No access
7. Power No access
8. Linguistic Models of Communications No access
9. Systems Models of Communication No access
10. Social Models of Communication No access
11. Culture and Interpersonal Conflicts No access
1. Discrimination No access
2. Communication Style No access
3. Sexual Harassment No access
4. Relational Aggression No access
5. Women in Peace and War No access
6. The Matriarchal Past No access
1. Organizational Development No access
2. Labor-Management Conflict No access
3. Leadership No access
4. Crisis Management No access
5. Competitive Strategy No access
6. Law of Unintended Consequences No access
1. Class Conflict No access
2. Ethnic Conflict No access
3. Gangs No access
4. Hostage Crises No access
5. Conflict and Stress No access
6. Wisdom of Crowds No access
1. Governmental Systems No access
2. Deliberative Assemblies No access
3. Voting Systems No access
4. Redistricting No access
5. Vote Fraud No access
6. Tax Systems No access
7. Tragedy of the Commons and the Free Rider Problem No access
1. Reproductive Success No access
2. Ecological Equilibrium No access
3. Territorial Imperative No access
4. Relative Deprivation No access
5. Nation-States No access
6. Characteristics of States No access
7. Number of Bordering State No access
8. Polarity No access
9. Human Rights No access
10. Arms Races No access
11. Correlates of War No access
12. Expected Utility No access
1. The Roman Catholic Tradition No access
2. The Greek Orthodox Tradition No access
3. The Jewish Tradition No access
4. The Muslim Tradition No access
5. The Hindu Tradition No access
6. The Buddhist Tradition No access
7. The Chinese Tradition No access
8. The Japanese Tradition No access
9. Just War Today No access
1. Origins of War No access
2. Types of War No access
3. Strategic and Tactical Theory No access
4. Strategic Geography No access
1. Economic Warfare No access
2. Humanitarian War No access
3. Guerilla or Low Intensity Warfare No access
4. Terrorism No access
5. Counter-terrorism No access
6. Piracy No access
7. Cyber Warfare No access
8. Lawfare No access
1. What is Peace? No access
2. Diplomacy No access
3. Track II Diplomacy No access
4. Department of Peace No access
5. Arms Control vs. Peace through Strength No access
6. Balance of Power No access
7. World Government and Peacekeeping No access
8. Pacifism and Nonviolence No access
9. Reconciliation No access
10. Is Mankind Becoming Increasingly Peaceful? No access
1. Torts No access
2. Negotiation No access
3. Distributive Negotiation No access
4. Integrative Negotiation No access
5. Third-Party Interventions No access
6. Large-scale Third Party Intervention No access
7. The Agreement Circumplex No access
18. Putting Conflict Theory to Use No access Pages 273 - 276
19. Improving Conflict Theory No access Pages 277 - 280
Appendix: Major Fallacies in Logic No access Pages 281 - 284
Bibliography No access Pages 285 - 314
Index No access Pages 315 - 320
Author Biography No access Pages 321 - 321