This interdisciplinary study provides a broad conceptual and
factual base for a deeper understanding of the social, political,
and economic forces that contribute to war and peace in the modern
world. Focusing on war as an integral part of the political and
economic development of the capitalist world-economy, the authors
offer critiques of modern conflict theories and in-depth empirical
analyses of war in the world-system during the past 400 years.
Schaeffer's introductory chapter assesses theoretical approaches to
the study of war from a world-system perspective. The historical
relationship between economic development and war in the interstate
system is explored on several levels. The emergence of the
world-system is discussed, and the history of its globalization
through diplomacy, aggressive trade expansion, conquest, and war is
outlined. The authors examine the changing structure of political
relations in the interstate system, and look at the connections
between military conflict and political and economic developments
within individual nations. The threat of nuclear war is considered,
particularly as it shapes the world-system through "deterrence
ideology" and the deployment of massive superpower nuclear
arsenals. Other topics addressed are the relationship between
militarization and national development, the origin and character
of military-industrial complexes, the waging of war by absolutist
states, and the impact of economic fluctuations on military
expenditures and international relations. Drawn from a recent
conference on War in the World-System, the studies in this book
distill some of the most original and innovative thinking in the
field. An appropriate choice forcourses or research in war and
peace studies, political economy, development, international
relations, and allied disciplines.
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