By Erik Ringmar
This publication deals an unique blend of cultural and narratological research with an empirical examine of id and political motion. a robust critique of rational selection thought, it additionally offers an answer to the historiographical puzzle of why Sweden intervened within the Thirty Years' warfare. Arguing that folks act for purposes of id, extra basic than purposes of curiosity, Erik Ringmar indicates the Swedish intervention to were an try on behalf of Swedish leaders to realize acceptance for themselves and their kingdom.
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In comparison, historians, as described by the narrativists, are employing a methodology which is exclusively their own, and the past which the historians-as-story-tellers create has a unique ontological status. Here the past is no longer a continuous replacement of one present by another, but instead the inter-temporal relationship of presents. It is the one moment replacing the other which constitutes the past, and each moment is given historical significance only as a unit in a series. 37 Regardless of how we explain it, however, the very fact that our accounts Historical and scientific explanations 29 of the past constantly undergo revisions should give us pause.
Let us once again begin with the theories of situational logic. Afirstquestion to ask here is how the factors emphasised by these theories can be said to cause war. At first blush this connection may seem hopelessly obscure: wars are actions, things that people do, but inanimate matter, in and by itself, surely cannot be said to act. Wars are undertaken by human beings, not by economic, technological or demographic factors. In order for these theories to explain anything they must consequently presuppose a connection between material situations and political outcomes which is forged as the result of the actions of human beings.
Demand has historically been conditioned by growth in population and technology and by access to resources: the more people there are and the higher their technological level and their level of resource consumption, the more resources they have required. 40 The increase in demand can be met with the help of either domestic or foreign resources. If domestic resources for some reason are unavailable, demand cannot be met at home, and as a result the country is forced to look for resources outside of its territorial boundaries.