Why We Fight

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Titel
Why We Fight
Untertitel
The Origins, Nature, and Management of Human Conflict
Verfasserangabe
David Churchman
Medienart
Sprache
Person
Auflage
2nd ed.
Verlag
Ort
Boston
Jahr
ISBN13
978-0-7618-6137-9
Fußnote
Includes bibliographical references (page 285-314) and index.
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Annotation
Sovereignty in the Age of Global Terrorism: The Role of International Organisations analyses the role of international organisations in adopting counterterrorism measures after 9/11 and the impact of these measures on the sovereignty of their Member States. The book examines the counterterrorism regimes of the UN and four regional organisations (with a special focus on the EU), as well as their implementation by their Member States. It includes the 2008 Kadi case of the European Court of Justice as case study of the conflicts between legal regimes that have competing mandates to fight terrorism. The relevance of the book lies in both comprehending the rationale for international actions against terrorism and the consequences on international law and State sovereignty.

Contents

1. Criteria for good theory -- 2. Conflict analysis -- Risk -- Prisoners' Dilemma -- Bayes's Theorem -- Lattice Theory -- Pareto Optimization -- Strategic choice -- Fair division -- 3. The nature of man -- Aggression -- Early man -- Sociobiology -- Aggression in primates -- 4. Aggression and the mind -- Aggression as instinct -- Frustration-aggression -- Aggression as learned behavior -- Human Needs Theory -- Psychiatric theories -- 5. Intellectual conflict -- Man -- History -- society -- Nature -- God -- The importance of dissent -- 6. Moral conflict -- Origins of morality -- Individual moral development -- Four forms of moral conflict -- Managing moral conflicts -- 7. Interpersonal conflict -- Personality and conflict -- Personality types and their measurement -- The "Generation Gap" -- Low conflict societies -- Family conflict -- Dual variable models -- Power -- Linguistic models of communication -- Systems models of communication -- Social models of communication -- Culture and interpersonal conflicts -- 8. Gender conflict -- Discrimination -- Communication style -- Sexual harassment -- Relational aggression -- Women in peace and war -- The matriarchal past -- 9. Organizational conflict -- Organizational development -- Labor-management conflict -- Leadership -- Crisis management -- Competitive strategy -- Law of Unintended Consequences -- 10. Community conflict -- Class conflict -- Ethnic conflict -- Gangs -- Hostage crises -- Conflict and stress -- Wisdom of crowds -- 11. Political conflict -- Governmental systems -- Deliberative assemblies -- Voting systems -- Redistricting -- Vote fraud -- Tax systems -- Tragedy of the Commons and the Free Rider Problem -- 12. Possible causes of war -- Reproductive success -- Ecological equilibrium -- Territorial imperative -- Relative deprivation -- Nation-states -- Characteristics of states -- Number of bordering states -- Polarity -- Human rights -- Arms races -- Correlates of war -- Expected utility -- 13. Just War in eight cultures -- Roman Catholic -- Greek Orthodox -- Jewish -- Muslim -- Hindu -- Buddhist -- Chinese -- Japanese -- Just War today -- 14. Interstate conflict -- Origins of war -- Types of war -- Strategic and tactical theory -- Strategic geography -- 15. Asymmetric conflict -- Economic warfare -- Humanitarian war -- Guerilla or low intensity warfare -- Terrorism -- Counter-terrorism -- Piracy -- Cyber warfare -- Lawfare -- 16. The search for peace -- What is peace? -- Diplomacy -- Arms control vs. peace through strength -- Balance of power -- World government and peacekeeping -- Pacifism and nonviolence -- Reconciliation -- 17. Dispute resolution -- torts -- Negotiation -- Distributive negotiation -- Integrative negotiation -- Third-party interventions -- The Agreement Circumplex -- 18. Putting conflict theory to use -- 19. Improving conflict theory -- Appendix : Major fallacies in logic.


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