Introduction

When i was studying political science, which is quite a long time ago, the fundamental theory that underlie political scientists explanations for conflict were economic. And that never seemed reasonable to me because many wars are fought for other reasons than resources. Two central american countries, i think it was guatemala and the hunde s, if i remember correctly, went to war over a sawker game. So the outcome of usa disputed the disputed outcome of asawker game. That doesn't exactly explain much, because that doesn't explain whether they're fighting for absolute differences in wealth or because of relative discrepancies in wealth. Those those are very, very different causal elements....