Azar Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security in the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. He took his doctorate from the University of Oxford (1986). His most recent books include Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is stillImperiled (Hoover, 2009), and Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism (CUP, 2012), with Alexander Yakobson. His War in Human Civilization (OUP, 2006) was named as one of the Books of the Year by the Times Literary Supplement. His titles have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, and Hebrew.
Preface: Why War? The Unsolved Mystery Past Imperfect: Prehistory and History 1. When Did It All Begin? 2. Why People in the Evolutionary State of Nature Fought 3. The Clash of the State-Leviathans Flaws and Misconceptions in Disciplinary Grand Theories 4. Anthropology: Why People Fought (if They Did) 5. 1. The Causes of War (or Their Absence) In International Relations Theory The Modernization Peace 6. Has War Been Declining - and Why? 7. Challenges to the Modernization Peace: Past and Future Conclusion
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