SOCI 265 Lecture Notes - Social Evolution, Opportunity Cost, Security Dilemma
12 Mar 2014
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Sociology 265 war, states and social change. = majority of wars since ww2 have been within states; direct human cost of the wars is about 20- Different types of civil wars? ethnic conflict = one subset. Or civil wars occurring after failed coups e. g. spain; civil wars resulting from the collapse of yugoslavia or ussr. = clearly multiple ways to divide civil wars into groups depending if the concentration is on causes, how they escalate another general distinction = ethnic vs. non-ethnic civil wars = clearly divides sets of mechanisms. Caucasus also = war begins with state breakdown but ethnicity also becomes involved; divisions along ethnic lines after state breakdown whilst guerrilla organisation was also an aspect . Balkans not just different ethnicities but took regional wideness: the presence of an external homeland complicates the distinction between ethnically driven and interstate conflict.
