The causes of war/week11/Ami Kim

1.       Summary

Representatives from many different academic fields try to explain about the war. Historians tend to be reluctant to seek a full account of the war. They liken the war to an unpredictable traffic accident. However, social scientists criticize this approach, claiming that war cannot be seen as purely accidental. The psychological theory argued that men are inherently violent. They explain why wars occur, saying that violence is suppressed in normal societies but not in wars. They also say that unless the innate psychology of the human mind changes, there is another era of long-term peace and war ending is a contradiction. Anthropologists see war fundamentally culturally and learn by sex rather than nature. Therefore, they believe that war will disappear if human societies can be reformed. In sociology, statistical analysis of war was pioneered by Louis Frei Richardson after World War I. The latest database on war and armed conflict has been collected by the war project's correlation, Peter Black and Upsala Peace and Dispute Studies, but has yet to be successfully predicted. Economic theory also forms part of the Marxist war theory, which states that all wars grow in class wars. They say that war is a natural derivative of free markets and class systems and will not disappear until the world revolution occurs.

2.       What is interesting / what did you learn

What was interesting was that historians described war as being like a car accident. I think there is definitely a reason for the war. I think war is different from accidental because I think it is caused by conscious decisions by national leaders. They also said they couldn't predict when and where war will take place, but I think it's slightly different. Many scholars always analyze and predict the behavior of leaders in each country. Of course, such ideas may be wrong, but I think they help predict.

3.       Discussion point

Do you agree with the historian's idea of war?