War, and Peace, and War

SCCS study on this topic: population growth and internal war

2007 Turchin, Peter, and Andrey Korotayev. Population Dynamics and Internal Warfare: a Reconsideration Social Evolution and History http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/AnthroSci/Turchin-Korotayev-plus-1.pdf http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/people/turchin/PDF/PopWar%20preprint.pdf (missing an important last figure)

Peter Turchin, 2006 paperback. War and Peace and War.

1. War and Peace and War. The following student ppt presentations now in pdf format on the course website: they may contain comments by DRW that can lead to updating the powerpoint for study purposes (further reports can be done by chapters to complement these powerpoints):
2. Review of Chapters 1-3 by Sayaka Page, Factors of Imperiogenesis that Explain the Rise of Empires - (1) Mongols on the Russian Frontier (Ermak's Conquoring Cossaks); (2) Euroamericans on the Amerindian Frontier (The Transformation of Russia -- and America); (3) Germans on the Roman Frontier (Slaughter at the 'Limites' of the Empire)
3. Review of Chapters 4-6 by Walkiria Quiroga: (4) Discovery of Collective Cohesion as a key to Historical Dynamics ("Asabiya in the Desert"); (5) Theory of Rational Choice vs. the Science of cooperation ("The Myth of Self-Interest"); (6) Testing the theory that imperial nations arise on metaethnic frontiers ("The Origins of Rome")
4. [ Review of Chapters 7-9] by Colin Marshall: (7) A Medieval Black Hole: The Rise of the Great European Powers (8) The Other Side of the Wheel of Fortune: From the Glorious Thirteenth Century into the Abyss of the Fourteenth (9) A New Idea of Renaissance: Why Human Conflict is Like a Forest Fire and an Epidemic
5. Review of Chapters 10-12 by Jennifer Duong: (10) The Matthew Principle: Why the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer (11) Wheels Within Wheels (**) PART III CLIODYNAMICS: A New Kind of History (12) The Many Declines of the Roman Empire
6. Review of Chapters 10-12 by Mehran Salehi): (10) (11) (12)
7. Review of Chapters 13-14 by Nadia Fraga: (13) Asabiya as the root of governmental performance ["The Bowling Alley of History"), and (14) Do the insights of Historical Dynamics have relevance to International Politics today ("The End of Empire?)