Causes of War
15 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 2FK008
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- Clausewitz, Carl von; Graham, James John, On War, Project Gutenberg ; NetLibrary, 2000Compulsory (Chapter 1)
- Hedström, Peter.; Swedberg, Richard, Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998Compulsory (Chapter 1)
- Blainey, Geoffrey, The causes of war, 3. ed., New York, Free Press, cop. 1988Compulsory
- Pruitt, Dean G.; Kim, Sung Hee, Social conflict: escalation, stalemate and settlement, 3. ed., New York, McGraw-Hill, 2004Compulsory (Chapters 5–8, pp 87–168 Available as pdf file on course page)
- Cashman, Greg, What causes war?: an introduction to theories of international conflict, Second Edition., Lanham, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]Compulsory (pp 492–513)
- Cederman, Lars-Erik; Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede; Buhaug, Halvard, Inequality, grievances, and civil war, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2013Compulsory (Chapter 3, pp. 30–53)
- Wood, Elisabeth Jean., Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003Compulsory (Chapter 1 &
8, pp 1–30, 226–256) - SIPRI yearbook: armaments, disarmament and international security. 2015, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015Compulsory (Bjarnegård, E., Melander, E., Bardall, G., Brounéus, K., Forsberg, E., Johansson, K., Muvumba Sellström, A. and Olsson, L. (2015). "Gender, Peace and Armed Conflict (Available from diva-portal.org via ub.uu.se))
- Brosché, Johan, Masters of war: the role of elites in Sudan's communal conflicts, Uppsala, Uppsala universitet, 2014Compulsory (Chapter 2, pp 24–44. (Available from diva-portal.org via ub.uu.se))
- Bates, Robert H.., When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008
- Olson, Mancur, Power and prosperity: outgrowing communist and capitalist dictatorships., New York, Basic Books, cop. 2000
- Fukuyama, Francis, The origins of political order: from prehuman times to the French revolution, [Ny utg.], London, Profile Books, 2012
- Tilly, Charles, Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1992, Rev. pbk ed., Oxford; Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell, 1992
In addition, a substantial number of mandatory, as well as optional, articles and reports will be added. All will be electronically available.
* Compulsory