causes of

  changing attitudes toward

  colonial

  datasets

  Conflict Catalog

  Correlates of War Project

  Human Security Report Project

  Levy on great power wars

  Luard on

  PRIO

  L. F. Richardson on

  SIPRI

  UCDP

  Q. Wright on

  and “deadly quarrels,”

  death rates

  destructiveness of

  drivers of

  duration of

  economic futility of

  extrastate; see also war, colonial; war, imperial

  geography of

  glory of

  of great powers

  homicide vs.

  immorality of

  imperial

  indirect deaths in

  interstate

  intrastate; see also civil war

  magnitude of

  major

  military horizon in

  “new,”

  in nonstate societies

  power-law distribution of

  private

  probability of

  proxy

  territorial

  timing of

  total

  trends in

  see also specific wars

  war games

  warlords

  agglomeration of

  knights as

  War of Attrition game

  War of the Holy League

  War of the League of Augsburg

  War of the Spanish Succession

  War of the Triple Alliance

  War on Drugs

  Warrior Gene theory

  Wars of Religion

  Washington, George

  Waters, Muddy

  Wathaurung aborigines

  Watts, Duncan

  wealth:

  accumulation of

  creation of

  and decline of violence

  plunder of

  as zero-sum

  weapons

  antipersonnel

  biological

  black market for

  chemical

  dirty (radiological) bombs

  long-distance

  of mass destruction

  in military revolution

  nuclear

  in schools

  technology of

  Weber, Max

  Weber’s Law

  Wegner, Daniel

  Weinberg, Alvin

  Wellington, Duke of

  Wells, H. G.

  West, Rebecca

  Western society:

  declines in violence compared with societies

  hostility to accomplishments

  humanistic movements in non-Western societies

  see also modernity

  western U.S.

  Westphalia, Peace of

  White, Matthew

  Who, The

  Wiesel, Elie

  Wiessner, Polly

  WikiLeaks

  Wilde, Oscar

  Wilkinson, Deanna

  Willard, Dan

  Willer, Robb

  Williamson, Laila

  Willkie, Wendell

  Wilson, James Q.

  Wilson, Margo

  Wilson, Woodrow

  Wimer, Christopher

  Winfrey, Oprah

  Wirth, Christian

  witchcraft

  Witness (film)

  Wollstonecraft, Mary

  Wolpert, Daniel

  women:

  and abortion

  Amazons

  in American West

  antiwar views of

  attitudes toward

  competition for

  and domestic violence

  feminism

  feminization

  genital mutilation of

  in harems

  and Islam

  as leaders

  male control of

  as pacifying force

  peace activists

  postpartum depression

  as property

  rape of, see rape

  rights of

  self-defense for

  “Take Back the Night,”

  torture of

  violence against

  violence by

  violence over; see also sexual jealousy

  World Bank

  world government

  World Health Organization (WHO)

  World War I

  and antiwar views

  and influenza pandemic

  as literary war

  and nationalism

  onset of

  poison gas in

  and World War II

  World War II

  causes of

  destructiveness of

  and ethnic cleansing

  London Blitz in

  and Pearl Harbor

  and poison gas

  Wotman, Sara

  Wouters, Cas

  Wrangham, Richard

  Wright, Quincy

  Wright, Robert

  Xhosa people

  Yamaguchi, Tsutomu

  Yanomamö people

  Yates, Andrea

  Yemen

  Young, Liane

  Young, Maxwell

  Younger, Stephen

  young men:

  African American

  aggression of

  in American West

  in bachelor cults

  and code of honor

  and crime

  in criminal gangs

  and dominance

  and drug culture

  homicides by

  in prison

  socialization of

  terrorists

  tribal elders defied by

  Yugoslavia

  Zacher, Mark

  Zambia

  Zebrowitz, Leslie

  Zelizer, Viviana

  zero-sum games

  Zimbardo, Philip

  Zimring, Franklin

  Zipf, G. K.

  Źiźek, Slavoj

  Zola, Émile

  ALSO BY STEVEN PINKER

  Language Learnability and Language Development

  Learnability and Cognition

  The Language Instinct

  How the Mind Works

  Words and Rules

  The Blank Slate

  The Stuff of Thought

  EDITED BY STEVEN PINKER

  Visual Cognition

  Connections and Symbols (with Jacques Mehler)

  Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (with Beth Levin)

  The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004

 


 

  Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

 


 

 
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