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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might [PDF]
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1554, Issue 1, Page 66-86, December 2025.This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Scott Atran
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Chemical Warfare Through the Ages: A Systematic Review From Antiquity to the Present [PDF]
Journal of Toxicology, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.Chemical warfare means the use of chemical agents that have direct toxic effects on animals, plants and humans, as weapons. The first documented use of a chemical agent for warfare purposes occurred in ancient times around 10,000 BCE in South Africa when weapons were dipped in chemicals and then used to attack and defend from enemies.
Damian Alexander Honeyman +4 more
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The Origins of the Peloponnesian War, the Origins of the Peloponnesian War, and Theories of International Relations [PDF]
Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political ThoughtThis article investigates the theoretical assumptions and implications of De Ste. Croix’s approach to interstate politics in The Origins of the Peloponnesian War. It suggests that two approaches can be identified in the work: one which sees a fundamental
Low, Polly
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Talia dixit, 2019 Review to: Johanna Hanink (ed.), How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy. Thucydides Speeches from The History of the Peloponnesian War, Princeton y Oxford: Princeton University Press ...
Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido
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Epiteichismos in the Peloponnesian War
, 2012 Generally, historians who deal with ancient Greek history and thereby tackle the Peloponnesian War have mostly failed to recognize the full significance or import of the Epiteichismos (Greek: “to build upon”) strategy and its contribution to ...
Otchere, JA, Grant, PKT
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Production and Operations Management, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Economic sanctions and consumer boycotts are common tools to punish organizations for undesirable behavior and attempt to coerce them to change their actions. However, these tools occasionally spill over beyond the intended recipients and affect guiltless supply chain members, jeopardizing the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in ...
Timofey Shalpegin +2 more
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, 2022 In this week\u27s episode, Jon O\u27Gorman asks guests Michael Pavkovic, Marc Genest and Josh Hammond about the true causes of the Peloponnesian War, why the war was so difficult to bring to an end, and the failed Peace of Nicias. We end by talking about
O\u27Gorman, Jon
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Sea Power in the Peloponnesian War [PDF]
, 2018 The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) was one of the defining conflicts of the ancient Greek world. It involved almost all the Greek city-states, aligned with one of the two main protagonists, Athens and Sparta. Conventionally it is seen as a war between a
Nash, John
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Popper’s Ahistoricism: The Case of the Peloponnesian War
Profil, 2019 I criticize Popper’s projection of modern ideals (liberalism, egalitarianism, humanism) onto antiquity. Without attempting to defend Plato or disprove Popper’s normative conclusions, the article shows that The Open Society and Its Enemies strongly ...
Jan Buráň
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Pericles' character in Old Attic comedy
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020 The paper discusses Aristophanes’ plays and the surviving fragments of other Old Attic comedy authors as one of the most important sources on Pericles’ biography. The main themes of comic invectives at Pericles were analyzed.
O.A. Rykantsova
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