THE NEVER ENDING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS STORY: THEORIES DEALING WITH THE CAUSES OF WARS
THE NEVER ENDING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS STORY: THEORIES DEALING WITH THE CAUSES OF WARS

Author(s): Zdeněk Kříž
Subject(s): Military history, Marxism, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Social Theory, Studies in violence and power, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: International relations; Causes of war; conflict studies; psychological theories; Marxism; neo-Marxism; Liberal theories;
Summary/Abstract: International relations (IR) as an autonomous academic discipline was eventually formed in the interwar era and it set quite an explicit goal– to contribute to the studies of wars and especially to prevent their re-occurrence. Hence the new discipline responded to the existing demandin a society recovering from the horrors of World War I. It had a purely practical task that could hardly be questioned in the social atmosphere of that time. Then as well as nowadays, to fulfill this ambition, it is necessary to pay attention to the study of the causes of wars. Therefore, theories dealing with the studies of the causes of wars are an essential part of the tradition of international relations.

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