Darwin and international relations :: on the evolutionary origins of war and ethnic conflict.

Pathbreaking and controversial, Darwin and International Relations offers the first comprehensive analysis of international affairs of state through the lens of evolutionary theory. Bradley A. Thayer provides a new method for investigating and explaining human and state behavior while generating ins...

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Main Author: Thayer, Bradley A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Pathbreaking and controversial, Darwin and International Relations offers the first comprehensive analysis of international affairs of state through the lens of evolutionary theory. Bradley A. Thayer provides a new method for investigating and explaining human and state behavior while generating insights into the origins of human and animal warfare, ethnic conflict, and the influence of disease on international relations. Using ethnological and statistical studies of warfare among tribal societies, Thayer argues that humans wage war for reasons predicted by evolutionary theory -- to gain and p.
Physical Description:1 online resource (440 pages)
ISBN:9780813149707
0813149703
1322594244
9781322594248
0813123216
9780813123219

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