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ticking-bomb scenario
 
and witch executions
 
totalitarianism
 
and genocide
 
see also
autocracy; dictatorships; theocracy
 
total war
 
Townshend, Pete
 
Toynbee, Arnold,
A Study of History
 
trade, international
 
trafficking,
see
human trafficking
 
Tragedy of the Commons
 
Tremblay, Richard
 
tribalism
 
tribes:
 
archaeological sites
 
and community
 
elders
 
group dominance
 
horse tribes
 
kinship in
 
and sorcery
 
violence between
 
and witchcraft
 
see also
hunter-gatherers;
specific tribes
 
Trietschke, Heinrich von
 
Trivers, Robert
 
Trivers-Willard theory of sex ratios
 
Trojan War
 
Trolley Problem
 
Truman, Harry S.
 
Trust game
 
Tuchman, Barbara
 
Tucker, G. Richard
 
Tunisia
 
Turing, Alan
 
Turkey
 
Turner, Henry
 
Tutu, Desmond
 
Tversky, Amos
 
Twain, Mark
 
Huckleberry Finn
 
Twenge, Jean
 
20th century, violence in
 
twin studies:
 
and behavioral genetics
 
of criminals
 
of intelligence
 
of personality
 
Tylor, Edward
 
Tyndale, William
 
tyranny,
see
despotism; totalitarianism
 
 
UCDP (Uppsala Conflict Data Project)
 
Uganda
 
Ukraine
 
Ultimatum game
 
Umberto I, king of Italy
 
unemployment
 
United Kingdom,
see
Britain/United Kingdom; England; Ireland; Scotland; Wales
 
United Nations
 
Arab Human Development Report
 
on capital punishment
 
Committee on Rights of the Child
 
General Assembly
 
on genocide
 
and homosexuality
 
and Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
 
and national borders
 
Office on Drugs and Crime
 
and peacekeeping
 
Security Council
 
UNESCO motto
 
UNESCO Trafficking Statistics Project
 
UNICEF Child Survival Revolution
 
and violence against women
 
United States:
 
American Revolution
 
armed forces of
 
capital punishment in
 
closing of the frontier
 
and Cold War,
see
Cold War
 
culture war in
 
deaths in
 
decivilization in 1960s,
 
demographics of
 
geographical distribution of homicides in
 
as great power
 
homicide rates in
 
immigrants to
 
migration routes in
 
nuclear monopoly of
 
presidential debates
 
presidents
 
racism in
 
recivilization in 1990s,
 
violence in
 
war deaths in
 
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
 
Uruguay
 
USSR:
 
Afghanistan invaded by
 
before and after Cold War,
see
Russia
 
collapse of
 
collectivization in
 
Cuban Missile Crisis
 
expansionism
 
genocide in
 
as great power
 
and nuclear weapons
 
Stalin’s purges
 
and World War II,
 
see also
Cold War
 
utilitarianism
 
utopianism
 
uxoricide
 
 
vaccination
 
Valdesolo, Piercarlo
 
Valentino, Benjamin
 
Valero, Helena
 
Valéry, Paul
 
van der Dennen, Johan
 
van Gogh, Theo
 
Vasquez, John
 
vegetarianism
 
vengeance,
see
revenge
 
Venice, democracy in
 
Verkko’s Laws
 
Versailles, Treaty of
 
Vidor, King
 
Vienna, Congress of
 
Vietnam
 
“Vietnam Syndrome,”
 
Vietnam War
 
antiwar protests
 
atrocities in
 
deaths in
 
Tungsten Theory of
 
as war of attrition
 
vigilantism
 
Violence Against Women Act (1994)
 
violence triangle
 
Virginia, homicides in
 
vivisection
 
Vlad the Impaler
 
Voltaire
 
Vonnegut, Kurt
 
Voting Rights Act (1965)
 
 
Waal, Frans de
 
Waldman, Irwin
 
Wales
 
Walker, Alice
 
Wallis, John
 
Walsh, John
 
Waltz, Kenneth
 
war:
 
alternatives to
 
antiwar views
 
of attrition
 
avoidance of
 
battle deaths,
use of term
 
categories of
 
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

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