War and the Rise of the West

Hall, John A.

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“…La principal conclusión que cabe extraer de todo lo hasta ahora expuesto es que la competición geopolítica internacional creó un contexto de gran rivalidad y permanentes hostilidades en Europa, lo que se tradujo en guerras y carreras armamentísticas hostigadas por sucesivas revoluciones militares. Este cúmulo de circunstancias contribuyeron a desencadenar cambios políticos en las estructuras de los Estados (Downing, 1992), pero también, y sobre todo, en la organización del espacio para movilizar y extraer una cantidad creciente de recursos con los que sostener un poder militar en aumento, lo que repercutió en la transformación de la base productiva que condujo a la aparición del capitalismo (Hall, 1987).…”

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La influencia de la competición geopolítica internacional en la formación del capitalismo

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2022

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Este artículo aborda la formación del capitalismo desde un punto de vista geopolítico. A este respecto comienza con la discusión de las aportaciones más notables en diferentes disciplinas y las diversas teorías sobre los orígenes del capitalismo. El estudio pone de manifiesto la ausencia de un enfoque espacial de esta cuestión y propone una explicación geopolítica. A continuación, el artículo combina diferentes elementos analíticos tomados de la ciencia política, las relaciones internacionales y la historia para examinar el nacimiento del capitalismo. El marco teórico adoptado se basa en el realismo neoclásico para analizar las interacciones entre el sistema internacional y las condiciones internas de las unidades políticas. Este marco se combina con la geopolítica, definida como un conjunto de prácticas presentes en la guerra, la política (nacional e internacional) y la diplomacia. De este modo recurrimos a la geopolítica para explorar cómo las presiones de la estructura de poder internacional alteraron la esfera doméstica con una nueva organización del espacio para movilizar y extraer más recursos para afrontar con éxito los desafíos externos. La guerra fue la actividad que impulsó este proceso y facilitó la formación del capitalismo que aumentó la riqueza disponible y permitió al Estado apuntalar su poder militar en la política mundial.

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La influencia de la competición geopolítica internacional en la formación del capitalismo

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“…Second, inherited intact at independence, the post-colonial state has retained its colonial trappings, and has at best been unable to satisfy the needs of the majority, and at worst has frustrated them, thus catalyzing the degeneration of politics into warfare. As a "capstone state" imposed atop local communities from above (Hall, 1987) or a "balloon suspended in mid-air" lacking organic roots into society (Hyden, 1986), the post-colonial state cannot be expected to promote popular happiness.…”

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Violent Conflicts in Africa: Towards a Holistic Understanding

Chingono¹

2016

WJSSR

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<p><em>Violent conflicts in Africa have claimed millions of lives, displaced many more and mortgaged the continent’s development. Yet, the study of their causes, dynamics and consequences is far from holistic and unified, but is instead fragmented, contested and divided along disciplines. Part of the problem is that, such complex conflicts are not amenable to mono-causal analysis and rigid theorization, but instead can only be better understood through multidisciplinary analyses of contested historical processes in which local and global forces interact to produce contingent, contradictory and ambiguous trajectories of violent change. This paper attempts to build a more holistic understanding of violent conflicts in Africa that transcends the limits of mono-causal and deterministic models of violence. Critically synthesizing competing perspectives, it highlights some of the many inextricably interlinked local and global causes and escalation factors of violence in Africa.</em></p>

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“…Although there is a relatively long tradition of (mostly American) military sociology (Janowitz, 1953(Janowitz, , 1957 and since the mid-1980s there has been a revival of interest in warfare by comparative political and historical sociologists (i.e. Tilly, 1985;Hall, 1987;Mann, 1986Mann, , 1988Giddens, 1987), their focus is either on the workings of military organization or on the historical impact of warfare on state formation and less on the sociology of war and violence per se. As Wimmer and Min (2006: 868) rightly point out: 'Sociologists have discussed war as a cause for other phenomena of interest to them, but rarely as an explanandum in its own right.'…”

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How Pacifist Were the Founding Fathers?: War and Violence in Classical Sociology

Malešević

2010

European Journal of Social Theory

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Most commentators agree that the study of war and collective violence remains the Achilles heel of sociology. However, this apparent neglect is often wrongly attributed to the classics of social thought. This article contests such a view by arguing: (1) that many classics were preoccupied with the study of war and violence and have devised complex concepts and models to detect and analyse its social manifestations; and (2) most of the classical social thought was in fact sympathetic to the 'militarist' understanding of social life. In many respects, classical social thought shared the analytical, epistemological and even moral universe that understood war and violence as the key mechanisms of social change. The structural neglect of this rich and versatile theoretical tradition is linked to the hegemony of the normative 'pacifist' re-interpretation of the classics in the aftermath of two total wars of the twentieth century. The author argues that the contemporary sociology of war and violence can gain much by revisiting the key concepts and ideas of the classics.

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War and the Rise of the West

Cited by 7 publications

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La influencia de la competición geopolítica internacional en la formación del capitalismo

La influencia de la competición geopolítica internacional en la formación del capitalismo

Violent Conflicts in Africa: Towards a Holistic Understanding

How Pacifist Were the Founding Fathers?: War and Violence in Classical Sociology

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