Malesevic offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old
question: 'Why do humans fight?'. Instead of focusing on the
motivations of solitary individuals, he emphasises the centrality
of the social and historical contexts that make fighting possible.
He argues that fighting is not an individual attribute, but a
social phenomenon shaped by one's relationships with other people.
Drawing on recent scholarship across a variety of academic
disciplines as well as his own interviews with the former
combatants, Malesevic shows that one's willingness to fight is a
contextual phenomenon shaped by specific ideological and
organisational logic. This book explores the role biology,
psychology, economics, ideology, and coercion play in one's
experience of fighting, emphasising the cultural and historical
variability of combativeness. By drawing from numerous historical
and contemporary examples from all over the world, Malesevic
demonstrates how social pugnacity is a relational and contextual
phenomenon that possesses autonomous features.
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