War and peace before sociology: social theorizing on violence from Thomas Hobbes to the Napoleonic wars
The long peace of the nineteenth century and the birth of sociology
The classical figures of sociology and the great seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century
Sociology and social theory from the end of the First World War to the 1970s
After modernization theory: historical sociology and the bellicose constitution of Western modernity
After the East-West conflict: democratization, state collapse, and empire building.