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Causes of War and Threats to Peace

mical and social situation of its own society and of the adversary. Accidents, where a critical situation gets out of hand, against the wishes of the governing subsociety. A fight over resources. Emotions and attitudes that cause wars: Greed, trying to increase prestige or power, the wish to participate in a heroic undertaking, the aggressive impulse, frustrations, insecurity. All these are often given a helpful hand by the producers of military material.We have to take into account that in a war nearly always someone gains: some nation, a social class, an enterprise or a political society; even if most of the involved IS's lose . "WAR IS NATURAL" Theories (Theories of natural causes of war)Wars have natural causes, reasons. These causes are built-in human and/or social nature. Causes are indestructible, thus wars are unavoidable.HUMAN NATURE as a main cause of war.In-born, instinctive aggressiveness in an individual is an unavoidable parameter of human nature. War is biologically approved. It is a continutation and a development of a "struggle of species for survival' from a biological world to a social world. (Freudism, neo-Freudism, etology, Social-Darwinism, sociobiology, etc.) SOCIAL NATURE is a main cause of war.Structure of social relations, group contradictions, division and sub-division of humankind into ethnic entities, nation-states, alliances and empires presuppose wars as one of "natural" and functional ways of social interaction between them. Some wars are more justified and functional, some less, but as a whole wars are a "dialectical" way of resolving contradictions. Progress and social development sometime occurs in the form of wars. Wars could be modified, controlled, but could not and even should not be eliminated as a social phenomenon.(Hegelianism, Marxism, Leninism, Trotskyism, national liberation ideologies. Modern structural-functionalism and system theories in political science) TECHNICAL (MAN-MADE) NATURE is a...

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