Tessaleno Devezas – Kondratieff Waves. Warfare & World Security. Volume 5 NATO Security

Series

NATO Security through Science Series – E: Human and Societal Dynamics

Volume

5

Published

2006

Editors

Tessaleno C. Devezas

ISBN

978-1-58603-588-4 (print) | 978-1-60750-160-2 (on-line)

Description

Considerable progress has been made in understanding the underlying mechanisms driving the long-wave conduct of the world socioeconomic growth. In spite of this progress one acknowledges that many facets associated with these underlying driving forces remained unsolved. One of those facets endured, maybe as essentially the most controversial one: the shut relationship between Ok-waves and the outbreak of main wars. Social scientists and politicians are effectively acquainted with the truth that probability occasions have been answerable for the outbreak of wars and their course and final result. Two predominant tendencies at the moment are acknowledged: the rising recognition of the existence of some cyclical patterns of warfare involving the core of the world system, and a shift towards newly evolving patterns involving non-state actors and uneven warfare. We might tentatively agree that wars usually are not merely the results of blind social and political forces, however patterned in line with lengthy socioeconomic cycles and the results of deep and common legal guidelines underlying the co-evolutionary unfolding of the world system. In the primary a part of this guide, the reader will discover a mixture of contributions coping with new visions or revisions of the idea of lengthy waves thought of from very completely different views associated to their unfolding. Those contributions discussing the problem of Ok-waves and their relation with army conflicts objectively, following outdated and / or new conceptualizations of the phenomenon, have been chosen to type the guide’s second half. Finally these contributions with robust emphasis on the evaluation of future eventualities, associated or not associated with warfare and / or world safety compose the physique of the third half.