Another approach to a Theory on the Causes of International War
Another approach to a Theory on the Causes of International War
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国际战争原因理论的另一种方法
DOI：
10.1177/002234338101800103
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发表时间：
1981
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通讯作者：
Klaus Jürgen Gantzel
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作者：
Klaus Jürgen Gantzel
战争成因的比较研究不仅在社会科学中的地位不高，而且由于定量方法的主导地位，也是相当片面的。这些方法非常重要，但到目前为止，这些研究的累积效果相当小，对实际和平政策的用处似乎微不足道。这种令人遗憾的研究状况主要是因为它没有建立在提供大量分析类别的系统参照系的基础上。本文介绍了一项旨在建立这样一个参照系的研究项目草案。遵循社会学的方法，运用历史社会学、社会历史学和政治经济学的思想和方法，我们打算对1920至1965年间的13次世界大战进行个案研究，并对其结果进行比较。案例研究及其比较的临时指导原则从以下主要类别开始：战争的利益，以及代表这些利益的群体或阶级；利益所根植的社会经济结构；实现利益的政治结构；作为行动工具的军事机构。
Comparative research on the causes of war not only plays a minor role in the Social Sciences but is also rather one sided because of the dominance of quantitative methods. These methods are very important, but up to now the cumulative effects of such research have been rather small, and their usefulness for practical peace policy seems negligible. This regrettable state of research is mainly due to the fact that it is not based on a systematic frame of reference offering substantial categories for analysis. This article presents the draft of a research project aiming at the construction of such a frame of reference. Following a societal approach and using the ideas and methods of historical sociology, social history, and political economics, we intend to make case studies of 13 international wars between 1920 and 1965 and to compare their results. The provisional guide-line for the case studies and their comparison starts with the following main categories: the interests for war, and the groups or classes representing these interests; the socio- economic structure in which the interests are rooted; the political structure through which the interests are carried out; the military apparatus as the instrument for action.