regality forum

While reading 6.4 "Why World War II started" I started wondering about why Germany went in a regal direction, but the US turned kungic during the 1930s. Economic depression and unemployment hit both countries, so the US should have gone in a regal direction. Maybe not as extreme as Germany, since th...

I am not sure I understand what you mean here. There were coalitions of large countries, each having a leading government. Regality theory seems to predict that a collective threat will cause the threatened population to put themselves under the authoritarian leadership of one man. The Allied power...

Thank you for your instant and thorough reply. It's exciting to discuss this theory. I'm looking forward to discussing more as I get farther into the book. So I would say that group solidarity, cooperation, and organization is mainly specific to the group in question. It does not lead to general reg...

I stumbled on Warlike and Peaceful Societies yesterday and am captivated by it. Really enjoying Agner's straightforward style. What is a group? Is it a strictly regal concept? Are groups distinct only to the extent that they are in conflict? I started thinking that maybe it is conflict that makes gr...