Introduction to Sociology/The Causes of wars/Jaehyeon Park

https://middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/costly-brutish-and-long-the-iraq-war-in-retrospect/

1.     Summary

In the present age, there are many wars occur on various places. But, nobody knows definitely the reasons of occurring war. So many people researched the why war is happening in this world. Historians claim there are situations when wars occur, but there is no system when wars occur. Psychological theories claim the ideology can be war’s reason. Anthropological theories arguing wars can be occurred by environment that surrounding place. Social studies show that there are numerous ways to explain wars in numerous ways, and can be explained by economically or politically but they can’t predict the wars. Other theories are information, economically, Marx.

2.        Interesting point.

I read the book “Gun, germ and steel”. There is a reason of why war is occurring, in that book, the

difference of the resources in each countries. The resources in each countries are different so other countries try to extort the other’s resources, wars begin. But the book said the wars can’t be predicted. In this article, the common ground of theories is that we can analyze reasons of why wars begin but they can’t predict how wars can begin. That was interesting the conditions of wars may affect or may not affect to wars.

3.        Discussion point.

The wars have been happened in the ancient age but I think the when wars begin, there are no wars that don’t have reasons and the representative common grounds of these reasons is the interests. The Vietnam’s war begun because of the U.S.A’s interests of resources, and Iraq war was too. So I think the wars can began by each country’s interests colliding with other country.

What do you think the main reasons of wars happening?