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课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/war
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课程名称：战争的悖论 课程概述：本课程《战争的悖论》旨在帮助我们理解战争不仅是人类生活的常态，而且在某种程度上是塑造我们身份的重要因素。通过这门课程，你将认识到战争既是人类情感和互动的自然表达，也是我们作为群体所需的凝聚力的组成部分。战争矛盾地体现了我们最基本的动物本性与我们所推崇的文明美德。课程将介绍一些基础的军事历史和社会学知识，以便于从更广泛的社会主题和与战争相关的问题进行深入理解。课程还将探讨与战争相关的性别和民族主义等话题，帮助你思考和理解日常生活中的社会现象。除了理论学习，课程还会推荐一些阅读材料和实际活动，让学生将课程中的理论见解应用到实际观察中。完成课程后，你会意识到战争无处不在，并能够深刻理解它对我们生活的定义。 课程大纲： 1. 介绍/欢迎：讨论战争的基本悖论，如建设与破坏、爱与恨的关系，并介绍课程概览和期望。 2. 战争的本质：战争既来源于“自然”本能，也是社会构建的结果，涉及组织和权威结构的强加。 3. 战争的原因：战争的原因可分为物质、文化和心理三个方面，核心是“我们-他们”的动态。 4. 战争的体验：理解战争的社会构建需要认识到这是极少数人会在控制或诱导下参与的活动。 5. 制造战士：战士被灌输一套价值观，责任感和荣誉感是其中的基本要素，这些价值观通过纪律的强加来教授。 6. 军队的战争：战争是关于有组织的暴力，本节课程追溯实现全面战争所需的管理和技术发展。 7. 战斗的进展：对历史战斗编队的概述，从方阵到火药革命再到工业化战争。 8. 社会的战争：战争也关乎社会生存，讨论三个例子：征服、种族灭绝和战略轰炸。 9. 战争的社会方面：国家与民族主义：战争帮助建设国家和民族主义。 10. 战争的社会方面：民主、公民权与社会平等：战争也促进公民身份和民主要求的发展。 11. 其他崛起：在西方主导500年后，自1945年以来，新型战争挑战了旧帝国的技术和组织优势。 12. 新挑战：战争的形式发生了变化，但军队的组织仍然是历史性的。 13. 课程总结：对课程内容进行回顾总结。 本课程的所有内容均可免费获取，完成后不提供证书。
Name:Introduction/Welcome
Description:The basic paradoxes of war: how it builds and destroys, produces love and hate are discussed. Outline of course and general expectations.
Name:The Nature of War
Description:War is a product of both “natural” instincts and a social creation involving the imposition of organization and authority structures.
Name:The Causes of War
Description:Causes of war may be described as material, cultural, and psychological. At the heart of war is the product of us-them dynamics.
Name:The Experience of War
Description:In order to understand the social creation of war we need to appreciate that this is an activity VERY few would engage in with control or inducement.
Name:Making Warriors
Description:Warriors are taught a set of values of which duty and honor are fundamental. These are taught through the imposition of discipline.
Name:The War of Armies
Description:Wars are about organized violence and this part of the course traces the managerial and technological developments necessary to culminate in total wars.
Name:The Progress of Battle
Description:Historical overview of battle formations from phalanx to gunpowder revolution to industrialized war.
Name:The War of Societies
Description:Wars can also be about societal survival and we look at three examples: conquest, genocide, and strategic bombing.
Name:Social Aspects of War: Nation State and Nationalism
Description:Wars help build states and nationalism
Name:Social Aspects of War: Democracy, Citizenship, and Social Equality
Description:Wars also develop citizenship and democratic demands
Name:The Rise of the Rest
Description:While the West was dominant for 500 years, beginning in 1945 new forms of war have challenged the technological and organizational supremacy of old empires.
Name:New Challenges
Description:Wars are not fought as they were yet militaries are still organized anachronistically.
Name:Final Lecture
Description:Summary of the class.
The Paradoxes of War teaches us to understand that war is not only a normal part of human existence, but is arguably one of the most important factors in making us who we are. Through this course, I hope that you will come to appreciate that war is both a natural expression of common human emotions and interactions and a constitutive part of how we cohere as groups. That is, war is paradoxically an expression of our basest animal nature and the exemplar of our most vaunted and valued civilized virtues. You will learn some basic military history and sociology in this course as a lens for the more important purpose of seeing the broader social themes and issues related to war. I want you to both learn about war, but more importantly, use it as way of understanding your everyday social world. So, for example, the discussion of war and gender will serve to start you thinking about how expectations of masculinity are created and our discussion of nationalism will make clear how easy “us-them” dichotomies can be established and (ab)used. I will suggest some readings for you to complement the class and assign some activities through which you will be able to apply the theoretical insights from the course to your observations of everyday life. At the end of the course, you will start to see war everywhere and come to appreciate how much it defines our life. All the features of this course are available for free. It does not offer a certificate upon completion.
