University Press of America
Pages: 280
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-0-7618-6105-8 • Hardback • May 2013 • $107.00 • (£82.00)
978-0-7618-6106-5 • eBook • May 2013 • $101.50 • (£78.00)
Isabelle Dierauer is an international relations theorist holding an interdisciplinary studies MA in international relations and philosophy from Antioch University Midwest.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Research Design and Methodology
Chapter 3
Literature Review
Chapter 4
Disequilibrium, Polarization and Crisis Model
Chapter 5
Case Studies of Internal Conflicts
Chapter 6
Case Study of Systemic War
Motivated by an exhaustive and comprehensive historical reading of international crises and wars since antiquity to modernity, Dierauer’s Disequilibrium, Polarization, and Crisis Model: An International Relations Theory Explaining Conflict maintains that a way to explain conflict generally and armed conflict in particular is to focus on emotions, and visceral, existential feelings about how individuals react and respond to socio-political changes. Dierauer adds and tests a dynamic six-stage process model explaining this important socio-psychological dimension in the analysis and explanation of why nation-states and politically organized groups engage in large-scale armed conflict. Two pre-civil war era cases (the U.S. Civil War and the Balkans Wars in the 1990s), and one pre-systemic war case (First World War) serve as test-cases of the model. The result is a historically well-grounded, theoretically sound, and methodologically rigorous study that adds to the long list of important contributions to socio-political psychology and explanations of the origin and evolution of international crises and wars. It is a most-read book for a wide audience interested in world politics generally, and on the causes of international crises and wars in particular.
— Félix E. Martín, associate professor of politics and international relations, Florida International University