Reviews for Why Wars Happen

The average rating for Why Wars Happen based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-07-21 00:00:00 Kenneth Kuen A cultural focus on the origins of wars. Bellicosity as a major factor. Against most social-scientific efforts to produce models for the origins of wars, especially as they tend to be rooted in notions from the nineteenth century, and certain types of state actors. Nevertheless, categorizing wars is difficult, and he warns against calling every peasant revolt a war. Black tries very hard to maintain a global focus, and cites frequent examples from around the world, including very obscure conflicts. Still a focus on Europe, but his training is in European history, so this is understandable.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-02-12 00:00:00 Dan Peters Basically a clinical perspective on genocide, there are some very good examples and stories to support Baum's theory and I really enjoyed reading those. There is some wrong information regarding wrong names etc. (Gregory H. Stanton is the author of 8 "The 8 Stages of Genocide" according to , not "Glenn Stannard" as Baum wrote; Yad Vashem is not "the Israeli organization that honors those who risked their lives for saving Jews", it's more like an international holocaust memorial center and the Israeli government is doing the honoring part...)