Alexey Arbatov, David J Betz etc

Krig: Hur konflikter format våra samhällen

Det påstås att ungefär 14 500 krig har utkämpats sedan år 3 500 f.Kr. Mänskligheten har bara erfarit 300 år av fred på jorden. Under 1900-talet dödades fler människor i krig än något tidigare sekel. Relativt sett dödar vi dock varandra mer sällan. Håller vi gradvis på att bli mer fredliga? Oavsett hur många som dödas, och med vilken metod, kan vi vara säkra på att krig kommer att fortsätta utkämpas. Ligger orsakerna till krig i samhället eller i biologin, i tävlan om ekonomiska resurser eller sexuella, i historiska omständigheter eller i en universell våldsinstinkt? Allt sedan antiken fram till dagens terrorism har krig varit förstörare och skapare av stater och civilisationer. Essäerna i denna antologi har sitt ursprung i det internationellt välrenommerade Engelsbergsseminariet 2015 och är skrivna av historiker, journalister, tänkare, forskare och författare från hela världen. Huvudredaktörer är Kurt Almqvist och Alexander Linklater.

ISBN: 9789189069763
Published: 2022-09-14
Graphic design: Patric Leo
Translator: Christian Nilsson
376 pages.

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Editors

Alexander Linklater

Editor

Alexander Linklater is a freelance writer and associate editor of Prospect magazine.

Kurt Almqvist

Editor

Kurt Almqvist is CEO at the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

Authors

Alexey Arbatov

Author

Alexei Arbatov is a Russian political scientist, academic, author and former politician.

Andrew Preston

Author

Andrew Preston is Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Clare College, where he is director of studies in history.

Charly Salonius-Pasternak

Author

Charly Salonius-Pasternak is a senior research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, where his primary areas of research are foreign, security and defence policy.

Christopher Coker

Author

Christopher Coker is director of LSE IDEAS, a foreign policy think tank at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dick Harrison

Author

Dick Harrison is Professor of History at Lund University.

Elisabeth Kendall

Author

Elisabeth Kendall is senior research fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Pembroke College, Oxford.

Frederick Kagan

Author

Frederick Kagan is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he is director of its Critical Threats Project.

Fredrik Logevall

Author

Fredrik Logevall is an historian and educator at Harvard University, where he is the Laurence D Belfer Professor of International Affairs and Professor of History.

Gregory Feifer

Author

Gregory Feifer is executive director of the Institute of Current World Affairs in Washington.

Hew Strachan

Author

Sir Hew Strachan, FBA, FRSE, has been Wardlaw Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews since 2015.

Janne Haaland Matláry

Author

Janne Haaland Matláry is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Command and Staff College.

Jessica Stern

Author

Jessica Stern is a research professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University and a senior fellow at Harvard’s School of Public Health.

Kimberly Kagan

Author

Kimberly Kagan is the founder and president of the Institute for the Study of War.

Lawrence Freedman

Author

Lawrence Freedman was Professor of War Studies at King’s College London from 1982 to 2014 and vice principal from 2003 to 2013.

Lilia Shevtsova

Author

Lilia Shevtsova is a member of the Liberal Mission Foundation (Moscow) and holds an honorary doctorate in social sciences from the University of St Gallen. s.

Malise Ruthven

Author

Malise Ruthven is a former scriptwriter for the BBC World Service.

Nathan Shachar

Author

Nathan Shachar studied Arabic, philosophy and Spanish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Pascal Vennesson

Author

Pascal Vennesson is Professor of Political Science and a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Peter Pomerantsev

Author

Peter Pomerantsev is a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where he co-directs the Arena Initiative, a research project dedicated to overcoming the challenges of digital-era disinformation and polarisation.

Philip Bobbitt

Author

Philip Bobbitt is the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence at Columbia University, and Distinguished Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas.

Rana Mitter

Author

Rana Mitter, OBE FBA, is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, and a fellow of St Cross College, at the University of Oxford.

Rob Johnson

Author

Rob Johnson is the senior research fellow of Pembroke College, associate of the Department of Politics and International Relations and director of the Oxford Changing Character of War Centre, at the University of Oxford.

Rolf Ekéus

Author

Rolf Ekéus has served as a diplomat in Germany, Kenya, the UN, New York and the Netherlands.

Tom Holland

Author

Tom Holland is a historian and translator.

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