The Social Dynamics Of Peace And Conflict

Robert A. Rubinstein, Mary LeCron Foster

Preface -- Introduction / Revitalizing International Security Analysis: Contributions from Culture and Symbolic Process -- Confronting Peace and War -- Anthropology and International Security -- Compromise and the Rhetoric of Good and Evil -- Inducement to Military Participation in Tribal Societies -- Dynamics of Conflict -- Images of the Other -- Values and the Exercise of Power: Military Elites -- Achieving Social Competence in the Navy Community -- Loyal Citizens of the Republic: Morality, Violence, and Popular Support for the IRA and INLA in a Northern Irish Ghetto -- Dynamics of Peace -- The Communist Ethic and the Spirit of China's Party Cadres -- Rivalry and the Rise of Swiss Neutrality: The Feud in the Peace -- Philippine Verticality and the Deflection of Class Conflict -- Fourth World Responses to External Threats: The Dené -- Conclusion / Expanding the Anthropology of Peace and Conflict