CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT

• Main Author: Sebastian SÂRBU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academy of Romanian Scientists Publishing House 2019-06-01
• Series: Annals: Series on Military Sciences
• Subjects: conflict; development; wars; geopolitics; geoeconomy; economic crisis; world wars; political values; crises; revolutions; cooperation
• Online Access: http://www.aos.ro/wp-content/anale/MTVol11Nr1Art.7.pdf

When classifying military conflicts, if we are to look beyond the balance of forces in the geopolitical and historic fields, no matter the nature and military means for carrying out wars (be they conventional or unconventional ones), the strategies being used, or the justifications employed by the world's centers of power, we can name and outline two main categories of wars, by using the method of reduction: - defensive wars, carried out according to national deterrence strategies, which are considered just wars; - wars of conquest, which are considered unjust wars. The latter category includes wars of economic disruption, interventionist wars (for various political reasons), ideological wars, economic wars, wars for the restauration of order and the rule of law, wars for imposing various interests, as well as for creating institutions and centers of power in a new administrative context under a new political leadership.