The End of Warfare?

The recent scholarship on warfare has been highly polarised around the question: Is organised violence on the rise or in decline? In this paper I critically examine the two dominant approaches - the new war thesis, and the decline of violence perspective - which offer contrasting answers to this question. The paper challenges both of these perspectives and develops an alternative, longue durée sociological approach, that focuses on the macro-organisational social context and explores the dynamics of the war-state-society nexus over the past centuries. I argue that warfare is not becoming obsolete and that ‘new wars’ are unlikely to completely replace inter-state warfare. Instead, my analysis indicates that there is more organisational continuity in the contemporary warfare that either of the two dominant perspectives is willing to acknowledge.

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sociology of war, historical sociology, organised violence, war

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This article was translated into Russian and published: Малешевич С. Конец войне? Социологический анализ основных подходов к изучению войны // Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniia. 2021. No 9: 80–93. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250016091-3

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23.09.2021

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27.09.2021

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ГОСТ	Малешевич С. The End of Warfare? // Социологические исследования – 2021. – Номер 9 C. 267-277 [Электронный ресурс]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250016792-4-1 (дата обращения: 02.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250016792-4
MLA	Malešević, Siniša "The End of Warfare?." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 9 (2021):267-277. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250016792-4
APA	Malešević S. (2021). The End of Warfare?. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (9), pp.267-277 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250016792-4

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