War Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World [Paperback]

War: Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the Worldpresents a broad variety of interdisciplinary and social scientific perspectives on the causes, processes, cultural representations, and social consequences of the armed conflicts between and within nations and other politically organized communities. This book provides theoretical views of armed conflict and its impact on people and institutions around the world.

1. The Nature of War 2. The Evolution of War 3. The War Machine (Bureaucracy and the Political Economy) 4. War and Social Stratification 5. Human Costs of War 6. Cultural Representations of War 7. War of Today and Tomorrow 8. Peace and Anti-War Movements

Cameron D. Lippard is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. His teaching interests focus on race and ethnic relations, immigration, sociology of war, and research methods. His primary research agenda examines the social integration of Latino immigrants into the American South, as well as examining how individuals and people use color-blind language to justify racist actions and policies. He also studies issues of postmodern cultural shifts in the United States and abroad concerning the rise of craft beer, legal moonshine, and fair trade coffee. Most recent book publications include authoring Building Inequality: Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Immigration in the Atlanta Construction Industry; Being Brown in Dixie: Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Immigration in the New South; and the editing of Race and Racism in the United States (4 volume encyclopedia); and Untapped: The Cultural Dimensions of Craft Beer.

Pavel Osinsky is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Appalachian State University. Dr. Osinsky received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Moscow State University (lc