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Contents: Stig Hjarvard/Mette Mortensen/Mikkel Fugl Eskjær: Three Dynamics of Mediatized Conflicts – Alison Anderson: The Mediatization of Environmental Conflict in the «Network Society» – Asimina Michailidou/Hans-Jörg Trenz: Mediatized Transnational Conflicts: Online Media and the Politicisation of the European Union in Times of Crisis – Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz/Andreas Hepp/Rebecca Venema: Communicative Figurations of Financial Blogging: Deliberative and Moralising Modes of Crisis Communication During the Eurocrisis – Ester Pollack: Personalised Scandalisation: Sensationalising Trivial Conflicts? – Johanna Sumiala: Ritual Performance in Mediatized Conflict: The Death of a Princess and a Prime Minister – Tine Ustad Figenschou/Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud/Anna Grøndahl Larsen: Mediatized Asylum Conflicts: Human-Interest Framing and Common-Sense Public Morality – Stig A. Nohrstedt/Rune Ottosen: Mediatization and Globalisation: New Challenges for War Journalism – Sarah Maltby: Imagining Influence: Logic(al) Tensions in War and Defence – Lilie Chouliaraki: Mediatized Death in Post-Arab Spring Conflicts – Mette Mortensen/Mikkel Fugl Eskjær/Stig Hjarvard: The Mediatization of Conflicts: Prospects and Challenges – Author Bios: The Dynamics of Mediatized Conflicts.

Using examples for each type of model, we consider dynamic games, differential games, and simulation as alternative ways of extending the standard static economic model of conflict to study patterns of conflict dynamics. It turns out that computational requirements and theoretical difficulties impose tight limits on what can be achieved using the first two approaches. In particular, we are unable to study dynamic military conflict as a series of 'battles' that are resolved individually. A simulation study based on a new model of adaptive, boundedly rational decision making, however, is shown not to be subject to this limitation. Plausible patterns of conflict dynamics emerge, which we can link to both historical conflict and standard tenets of military theory.

Anna Simons comments on arguments discussed in John Mueller's article, "The Banality of Ethnic War" (2000). She points out that Mueller was correct in drawing similarities between Rwanda & Yugoslavia. She points out, however, that Mueller failed to consider the historical events similar to the recent ethnic cleansing that he analyzes, which weakens his argument. Mueller underemphasized the importance of the role that ethnicity played in the destruction of human lives in these countries, which was fueled by fear & propaganda. In response, Mueller defends his arguments. E. Miller

A comparative assessment of the dynamics of technological development of Ukraine and Russia for 2014–2019 has been carried out in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war. A method for assessing the economic losses of the conflicting parties due to a slowdown in their technological development, under the influence of militarization, based on the parameter of technological progress of the Solow-Tinbergen production function, built according to the World Bank 1991–2019 data, was proposed and tested. It is substantiated that during the Russian-Ukrainian war, starting from 2015, the technological development of the Russian Federation was curtailed and the economy transitioned to an extensive basis, when the parameter of technological progress acquired a negative value. In the case of Ukraine, a deterioration in technological development was detected due to a decrease in the values of the parameter of technological progress during 2014–2019. It has been proven that the economic recession of the aggressor is the worst in comparison with the victim country, but the relative losses of GDP due to the curtailment of technological development caused by the war are much less. In the case of the Russian Federation as an aggressor country, it is substantiated that the main catalyst for the economic recession was the curtailment of the participation of the real sector of the economy in the international transfer of technologies under the influence of international economic sanctions. In the case of Ukraine, as a country-victim of military intervention, it is justified that the replacement of international partnership in the field of technological cooperation ensured a slowdown in the economic recession. The results of the development of methodological support for the process of assessing GDP losses of the parties to a military conflict are universal for use in international comparisons. The proposed methods are relevant in assessing the technological development of countries that are or were in a state of military ...

This sequel to Randall Collins' world-influential micro-sociology of violence introduces the question of time-dynamics: what determines how long conflict lasts and how much damage it does. Inequality and hostility are not enough to explain when and where violence breaks out. Time-dynamics are the time-bubbles when people are most nationalistic; the hours after a protest starts when violence is most likely to happen. Ranging from the three months of nationalism and hysteria after 9/11 to the assault on the Capitol in 2021, Randall Collins shows what makes some protests more violent than others and why some revolutions are swift and non-violent tipping-points while others devolve into lengthy civil wars. Winning or losing are emotional processes, continuing in the era of computerized war, while high-tech spawns terrorist tactics of hiding in the civilian population and using cheap features of the Internet as substitutes for military organization. Nevertheless, Explosive Conflict offers some optimistic discoveries on clues to mass rampages and heading off police atrocities, with practical lessons from time-dynamics of violence.