Review of the book by Norman Walter (1950) The Sexual Cycle of Human Warfare: Being a New Theory of the Cause of War and an Inquiry into the Possibility of War-Prediction. London: The Mitre Press, pp. 208, ISBN: 978-0705191319

• Authors: Vivod Maria
• Languages of publication: EN

Keywords

EN

theory of war; polemology; bio; sociobiology; group-behavior

• Publisher: Akademia Sztuki Wojennej
• Journal: Security and Defence Quarterly
• Year: 2021

Dates

published

2021-07-03

received

2021-05-25

accepted

2021-05-30

Contributors

author

Vivod Maria

• CNRS, UMR 7367 DynamE (Dynamiques Européennes), Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme – Alsace (MISHA), 5 allée du Général Rouvillois, CS 50008 67083 Strasbourg Cedex, France

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Identifiers

DOI

10.35467/sdq/138290