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AbstractThe sociology of war has used a number of analytical perspectives to explain why the end of the Cold War saw outbreaks of violence around the world in the form of 'new wars', rather than universal peace. Factors often considered are globalisation, nationalist ideology, political elites, the Revolution in Military Affairs, international crime and migration. Sociological analysis of these new wars often makes use of comparative historical sociology, but these are wars of state disintegration rather than of state formation. This summary undertakes a critical evaluation of different approaches, arguing that they mostly follow a model of war inherited from Clausewitz which conceives of war only as an encounter between two states and so cannot successfully explain new war, where armed forces no longer primarily fight each other but target civilians.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Imaginative Methodologies: Creativity, Poetics and Challenges to Conventional Social Science -- PART I READING -- 1 Chicago Vice and Virtue: The Poetic Imagination Meets the Sociological Imagination -- 2 Bacon, Kundera, Bauman -- 3 José Saramago's Sociology -- PART II WRITING -- 4 Reading and Writing the Experimental Text -- 5 On Writing: On Writing Sociology -- 6 Alice in Computerland -- PART III EXPLORING -- 7 Getting in Touch with the World: Meaning and Presence in Social Science -- 8 Theatricalized Reality and Novels of Truth: Respecting Tradition and Promoting Imagination in Social Research -- 9 Creative Methods: Oracles, Poiesis and Epiphanies as Metaphors of Theorizing -- PART IV TEACHING -- 10 Creativity in the Classroom: The Poetics of Pedagogy and Therapeutic Shock in Teaching Sociology -- 11 Inspiring 'The Methodological Imagination': Using Art and Literature in Social Science Methods Teaching -- 12 Imagining the Outsiders: Exploring Literary Representations of 'the Other' as Pedagogic Practice -- 13 The Uses of Literary and Cinematic Characters in Teaching Sociology -- Index