Chapters by Jürg Helbling
The Ending of Tribal Wars, 2021
The last chapter compares the seven case studies more systematically. The aim is to shed light on... more The last chapter compares the seven case studies more systematically. The aim is to shed light on the whole range of political configurations that framed pacification processes up to the present day. The theoretical model allows a better understanding of the various patterns of pacification processes and it helps to identify the conditions that facilitate or impede the long-term cessation of tribal warfare. The conclusion argues that pacification is more successful and more durable where state actors mainly focus on selective incentives, offer peaceful groups protection against still-bellicose groups, and only as a last resort use moderate and selective repression, combined with the quick establishment of robust and effective institutions of peaceful conflict settlement.
In the preceding chapters, we have presented seven case studies of pacification processes taking place in different world regions and time periods, under both colonial as well as post-colonial state rule. In most of these case studies, several phases within each process can be discerned. We now will compare these case studies and highlight some common features as well as significant differences in order to identify some general patterns regarding processes of pacification.
Papers by Jürg Helbling
As Simon and others have demonstrated, the model of homo oeconomicus is far from convincing. But ... more As Simon and others have demonstrated, the model of homo oeconomicus is far from convincing. But the cognitive limitations of decision-making, these authors put forward, do not render rational actors less rational. A more realistic model of rational choice has to focus on the economic, political and normative-institutional incentives, which may explain why rational actors act the way they do.
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Analyse and Kritik, 2002
The paper explores the main paradigmatic failures of structural functionalism in anthropology. St... more The paper explores the main paradigmatic failures of structural functionalism in anthropology. Structural functionalism explains institutions and social behavior by their contribution to the reproduction of social structure. Starting from Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski, who represent two main variants of functionalism in anthropology, its main paradigmatic problems are discussed: its inability to analyze social confiict and change, its reducing of society to norms and values as weil as its mode of explaining social facts. These failures are illustrated by two functional theories of tribal wars, by Evans-Pritchard and by Rappaport. Various theoretical alternatives emerge from the decline of functionalism in anthropology. Confiict theory as weil as game theory, new institutionalism, theories of collective action and evolutionary economics represent true alternatives. This again is illustrated by a theory of tribal war, explaining cooperation both within local groups and between allies against the background of the warlike social environment in which local groups are interacting.
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Chapters by Jürg Helbling
In the preceding chapters, we have presented seven case studies of pacification processes taking place in different world regions and time periods, under both colonial as well as post-colonial state rule. In most of these case studies, several phases within each process can be discerned. We now will compare these case studies and highlight some common features as well as significant differences in order to identify some general patterns regarding processes of pacification.
Papers by Jürg Helbling
In the preceding chapters, we have presented seven case studies of pacification processes taking place in different world regions and time periods, under both colonial as well as post-colonial state rule. In most of these case studies, several phases within each process can be discerned. We now will compare these case studies and highlight some common features as well as significant differences in order to identify some general patterns regarding processes of pacification.