War in social thought: Hobbes to the present

Introduction

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.