Bloomsbury is publishing a new
volume in its “causes of war” book series.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This is the fourth volume of a
projected six-volume series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the
present day, written by a leading international lawyer, and using as its
principal materials the documentary history of international law, largely in
the form of treaties and the negotiations which led up to them. These volumes
seek to show why millions of people, over thousands of years, slew each other.
In departing from the various theories put forward by historians,
anthropologists and psychologists, the author offers a different taxonomy of
the causes of war, focusing on the broader settings of politics, religion,
migrations and empire-building. These four contexts were dominant and often
overlapping justifications during the first four thousand years of human
civilisation, for which written records exist.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alexander Gillespie is Pro
Vice-Chancellor for Research and Professor of Law at the University of Waikato,
New Zealand.
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