War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World presents a broad variety of interdisciplinary social scientific perspectives on the causes, processes, cultural representations, and social consequences of the armed conflicts between and within nations and other politically organized communities. Composed of framing essays and original readings, this book provides theoretical views of armed conflict and its impact on people and institutions around the world.

War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World presents a broad variety of interdisciplinary social scientific perspectives on the causes, processes, cultural representations, and social consequences of the armed conflicts between and within nations and other politically organized communities. Composed of framing essays and original readings, this book provides theoretical views of armed conflict and its impact on people and institutions around the world.

Can affirmative action in US college admissions survive mounting threats? This judicious review, part of the Sociology of Diversity series, considers the question using up-to-date sociological, policy and legal perspectives to explain both sides of the fierce debate over affirmative action in the context of prominent Supreme Court cases.