The Sociology of New Wars? Assessing the Causes and Objectives of Contemporary Violent Conflicts
The Sociology of New Wars? Assessing the Causes and Objectives of Contemporary Violent Conflicts
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新战争的社会学？
DOI：
10.1111/j.1749-5687.2008.00038.x
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
S. Malešević
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作者：
S. Malešević
从安全研究、国际关系到政治经济学，对新战争范例的最新描述在各种学科中都得到了彻底的审查。总的趋势是关注战争的范围、方法、战术、战略、战争形式和/或暴行的程度。然而，几乎没有持续的尝试来评估结构性原因和关于当代战争不断变化的目标的争论。本文对新战争范式的宏观社会学解释进行了批判性的分析，重点关注了最近几次战争的目的和原因。作者认为，尽管发展了复杂的模型，但当代战争社会学的基础并不稳固，因此无法令人信服。人们看到的不是当代暴力冲突的起因和目标的戏剧性转变，而是这些战争发生的社会和历史背景的重大转变。
The recent accounts of the new war paradigm have been thoroughly scrutinized in a variety of disciplines from security studies and international relations to political economy. The general trend is to focus on the scope, methods, tactics, strategies, forms of war, and/or the level of atrocity. However, there has been little sustained attempt to assess structural causes and the arguments about the changing aims of contemporary warfare. This paper provides a critical analysis of the macro sociological accounts of the new war paradigm with a spotlight on the purpose and causes of the recent wars. The author argues that despite the development of elaborate models, the sociology of contemporary warfare rests on shaky foundations and hence fails to convince. Rather than witnessing a dramatic shift in the causes and objectives of contemporary violent conflict, one encounters a significant transformation in the social and historical context in which these wars are waged.