He discards the speculation which marks classical accounts and turns instead to the empirical data of modern anthropology and an analysis rooted in biological evolution. But he claims a more relevant and useful understanding of humans than theorists have previously provided. Gat begins his intellectual quest where all good accounts of war and politics start: with human nature. In this abridgement and extension of his earlier War in Human Civilization, Azur Gat asks, and does a fair job of answering, some of the big questions with which political theorists have historically grappled: What is war? Why do humans fight? What accounts for the recent decline of war? Will the current, relatively peaceful era last? Reviewed by David Lorenzo (National Chengchi University) The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound?
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