The most common element of human history in order to cease
power from others is “War”.
It is actually the most common denominator of our history. It is also one of the most fundamental problems in international relations. War has been viewed as the process of continuation of politics by most political scientists and foreign policy makers. Whenever the diplomacy fails a country, the country decides to go on a war which they consider a remedy to find the solution of the conflict both the parties are facing. Postmodernists believe that war is the result of breakdown of the modern international system because the motive of these relations is to minimize or to stop these conflicts. Political scientists have finally come up with the causes of war. The main causes of war are ‘human nature’ that humans actually have instinctive aggressive and violent nature which mostly triggers the urge of war making war inevitable. These combats also happen because of the conflict of on regimes, ideology and religion. Most wars that have happened around the globe are mostly due to differences on religion and ideology. During the early modern era, nearly every European country experienced numerous wars of religion as the Catholics sought to destroy the Protestants. The wars of religion culminated in the Thirty Years’ War, which stretched from Spain and France to the eastern stretches of Germany during the seventeenth century. It was a brutal and horrific war, and the Catholics’ failure to win the war marked the end of the major religious wars in Europe.
It is actually the most common denominator of our history. It is also one of the most fundamental problems in international relations. War has been viewed as the process of continuation of politics by most political scientists and foreign policy makers. Whenever the diplomacy fails a country, the country decides to go on a war which they consider a remedy to find the solution of the conflict both the parties are facing. Postmodernists believe that war is the result of breakdown of the modern international system because the motive of these relations is to minimize or to stop these conflicts. Political scientists have finally come up with the causes of war. The main causes of war are ‘human nature’ that humans actually have instinctive aggressive and violent nature which mostly triggers the urge of war making war inevitable. These combats also happen because of the conflict of on regimes, ideology and religion. Most wars that have happened around the globe are mostly due to differences on religion and ideology. During the early modern era, nearly every European country experienced numerous wars of religion as the Catholics sought to destroy the Protestants. The wars of religion culminated in the Thirty Years’ War, which stretched from Spain and France to the eastern stretches of Germany during the seventeenth century. It was a brutal and horrific war, and the Catholics’ failure to win the war marked the end of the major religious wars in Europe.
I believe wars happen when issues that people feel most dearly about are attacked. You note that the main causes have been conflicts on ideology and religion. It is with no doubt that people usually have a strong stance on either or both the reasons mentioned.
ReplyDeleteHistory gives us a no different view. The greatest war in the world, world War 2, gave rise to an ideological conflict so big that it started a 45 year long Cold War which finally ended with the fall of Berlin wall. The wars being fought in our current times is a direct result of differences in religious interpretation and teachings.