Main group 1

• Clausewitz, Carl von, Clausewitz on small war, First edition., New York, Oxford University Press, 2015Compulsory* (Chapter 1)
• Hedström, Peter.; Swedberg, Richard, Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998Compulsory* (Chapter 1)
• Blainey, Geoffrey, The causes of war, 3. ed., New York, Free Press, cop. 1988Compulsory*
• Pruitt, Dean G.; Kim, Sung Hee, Social conflict: escalation, stalemate and settlement, 3. ed., New York, McGraw-Hill, 2004Compulsory* (Chapters 5–8, pp 87–168 Available as pdf file on course page)
• Cashman, Greg, What causes war?: an introduction to theories of international conflict, Second Edition., Lanham, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]Compulsory* (pp 492–513)
• Cederman, Lars-Erik; Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede; Buhaug, Halvard, Inequality, grievances, and civil war, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2013Compulsory* (Chapter 3, pp. 30–53)
• Wood, Elisabeth Jean., Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003Compulsory* (Chapter 1 & 8, pp 1–30, 226–256)
• SIPRI yearbook: armaments, disarmament and international security. 2015, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015Compulsory* (Bjarnegård, E., Melander, E., Bardall, G., Brounéus, K., Forsberg, E., Johansson, K., Muvumba Sellström, A. and Olsson, L. (2015). "Gender, Peace and Armed Conflict (Available from diva-portal.org via ub.uu.se))
• Brosché, Johan, Masters of war: the role of elites in Sudan's communal conflicts, Uppsala, Uppsala universitet, 2014Compulsory* (Chapter 2, pp 24–44. (Available from diva-portal.org via ub.uu.se))
• Bates, Robert H.., When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008
• Olson, Mancur, Power and prosperity: outgrowing communist and capitalist dictatorships., New York, Basic Books, cop. 2000
• Fukuyama, Francis, The origins of political order: from prehuman times to the French revolution, [Ny utg.], London, Profile Books, 2012
• Tilly, Charles, Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1992, Rev. pbk ed., Oxford; Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell, 1992

In addition, a substantial number of mandatory, as well as optional, articles and reports will be added. All will be electronically available.

* Compulsory