Friday, May 16, 2014

International Relations/The Causes of War

Causes of war

Many academic discipline try to explain war.

Historians

Historians avoid to completely explain about war.In contrast, social scientists criticize that the beginning of every war is happened by some leaders's conscious ambitions.

Psychological theories

Some psychologists have argued that human beings, especially men, are inherently violent.While these theories can explain why wars occur, they do not explain when or how they occur. if human leadership was in female hands wars would not occur.Other psychologists have argued that when mentally unbalanced men have a control, 
the war can occur.

Anthropological theories

Anthropologists see it as fundamentally cultural, learnt by nurture rather than nature.
Also such theorists argue that almost all wars are begun by the whims of leaders and
these leaders occur the war to maintain their justification. 

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