Warfare, Social Theory and West European Development
Clive Ashworth|Christopher Dandeker
This paper explores the intellectual reasons for failure of sociology to give sufficient attention warfare and military organisation as central problems in social theory. These are be found dominance liberal functionalism Marxism paradigms development sociology. A reorientation theory is called it suggested that writers neo-Machiavellian tradition provide an important corrective sociological orthodoxy respect role war life. The goes on show these factors crucial components adequate account one most raised by sociology: why did hegemonic capitalism develop originally West not elsewhere. Thus, ironically, those which has tended ignore actually key solving its problems.
The Sociological Review