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Darwin and international relations : on the evolutionary origins of war and ethnic conflict.
Pathbreaking and controversial, Darwin and International Relations offers the first comprehensive analysis of international affairs of state through the lens of evolutionary theory. Bradley A. Thayer provides a new method for investigating and explaining human and state behavior while generating ins...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Pathbreaking and controversial, Darwin and International Relations offers the first comprehensive analysis of international affairs of state through the lens of evolutionary theory. Bradley A. Thayer provides a new method for investigating and explaining human and state behavior while generating insights into the origins of human and animal warfare, ethnic conflict, and the influence of disease on international relations. Using ethnological and statistical studies of warfare among tribal societies, Thayer argues that humans wage war for reasons predicted by evolutionary theory -- to gain and p. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (440 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780813149707 0813149703 1322594244 9781322594248 0813123216 9780813123219 |