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The War System

Westview Special Studies in Peace, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution

The War System: An Interdisciplinary Approach

edited by Richard A. Falk and Samuel S. Kim

This anthology on the war system grew out of the authors' sense of dissatisfaction with the existing literature and their feeling that a rigorous social science approach that is also sensitive to values is both desirable and possible. The book is organized around several key assumptions. First, because the authors agree that the conditions of peace cannot be prescribed before the causes of war are subjected to a systematic etiological inquiry, it is largely diagnostic. Second, its systems approach to the causes of war is based on the assumption that war is a species of human conflict and that the etiology of war should deal with the entire range of human conflict, from interpersonal to international. Third, the belief that war does not have a single cause leads to the interdisciplinary approacha synthesis of relevant contributions from all the disciplines dealing with human behavior. The essays are uniformly marked by the recognition of values within the context of empirical research.

Richard A. Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University and director of U.S. participation in the World Order Models Project (WOMP). Samuel S. Kim, professor of political science at Monmouth College, is currently visiting professor of public and international affairs at Princeton University and visiting research political scientist at the university's Center of International Studies.

Written under the auspices of the Center of International Studies, Princeton University

A list of other Center of International Studies publications appears at the back of the book.

The War System: An Interdisciplinary Approach

edited by Richard A. Falk and Samuel S. Kim

First published 1980 by Westview Press

Published 2019 by Routledge
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Copyright 1980 by Taylor & Francis

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
The War system.
(Westview special studies in peace, conflict, and conflict resolution)
Bibliography: p.
1. War and societyAddresses, essays, lectures. I. Falk, Richard A. II. Kim, Samuel S.,
1935- III. Series.
HM36.5.W37 301.6'334 79-19566

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-29712-1 (hbk)

Contents

1. Part 1
   Moral and Philosophical Inquiries
2. Part 2
   Ethological and Psychological Inquiries
3. Part 3
   Cultural and Anthropological Inquiries
4. Part 4
   Sociopsychological Inquiries
5. Part 5
   Sociological Inquiries
6. Part 6
   Socioeconomic Inquiries
7. Part 7
   Decisionmaking Inquiries
8. Part 8
   International Systemic Inquiries
9. Part 9
   Normative Inquiries

1. Part 1
   Moral and Philosophical Inquiries
2. Part 2
   Ethological and Psychological Inquiries
3. Part 3
   Cultural and Anthropological Inquiries
4. Part 4
   Sociopsychological Inquiries
5. Part 5
   Sociological Inquiries
6. Part 6
   Socioeconomic Inquiries
7. Part 7
   Decisionmaking Inquiries
8. Part 8
   International Systemic Inquiries
9. Part 9
   Normative Inquiries

1. ii
2. iii
3. iv
4. xvii

Guide

Tables

Figures

An interdisciplinary study of this nature and scope reflects contributions of many scholars in diverse disciplines and fields concerned with human conflict behavior in general and with human war-prone behavior in particular. They are too numerous to enumerate here. Still, our deep gratitude goes to those scholars whose writings have been incorporated in this volume as "sample representatives* of what their particular disciplines can contribute to the study of war.

In a serious sense, this volume is an outgrowth of our teaching world order and peace studies courses over the years. Richard Falk expresses his gratitude to those of his Princeton students and colleagues who have shared the concerns that comprise this volume. Samuel Kim profited immensely from his colleagues who have joined him in team-teaching peace studies courses at Monmouth College. Specifically, he acknowledges his intellectual indebtedness to Guy Oakes (social science methodology), William Mitchell (anthropology), and Kenneth R. Stunkel (intellectual history and human ecology). Their influence on his peace-research thinking has found its way into this book.

Robert C. Johansen and Saul H. Mendlovitzrespectively president of the Institute for World Order and director of the World Order Models Projects (WOMP)have been unsparing in their moral support for the project. In addition, Johansen's suggestions have been very useful in revising the structure of the book. For their continuing encouragement of our partnership in this and other projects, we are thankful.

This study has grown out of the institutional sponsorship of the Center of International Studies, Princeton University. We wish to thank the Policy Committee of the center for supporting this project. In particular, we are greatly indebted to Cyril E. Black, director of the center, for his encouragement of our work and for financial support of the project. We also happily acknowledge that it is largely his leadership that has made the center such a stimulating and congenial place in which to carry on collaborative work of this nature. June Garson typed several drafts of different parts of the book with her customary skill and lan. Our most sincere thanks go to Charlotte Ebel who has so graciously and efficiently borne the main managerial burden of producing a book of this nature. During the summer of 1979 when both of us were away, she guided the manuscript through the copy-editing process at Westview Press, becoming in the process a co-worker of the project.

Finally, it was indeed our pleasure to work with Westview Press in the production of this book. We wish to thank Frederick Praeger, Miriam Gilbert, Douglas Beall, Lynne C. Rienner, Annette Frahm, and Lynn Lloyd for their help in guiding our manuscript so effectively through the various stages of the production process.

None of these debts absolve us, however, from taking full responsibility for whatever errors and defects may still remain; of course, we alone are responsible for the normative thrust of the book.

Richard A. Falk
Samuel S. Kim

The War System

Richard A. Falk and Samuel S. Kim

War has long exerted a powerful fascination over the human imagination. Novelists, filmmakers, poets, and artists have probed various dimensions of war in an attempt to fix its place in the annals of human experience. War touches and agitates our deepest recesses, our rawest nerves, our wildest fantasies as individuals and as members of human society. War captures man's fondest dreams and worst fears. War is being fought not only by contending soldiers but also by contending political propagandists. As such, war has a fugitive reality in popular consciousness as well as a geopolitical dimension in national statecraft.

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