Michael Mann, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

The Macro-Sociology of War

The Causes of War

Tuesday, November 1, 4pm, 3401 Sterling Hall

Has War Declined Through Human History

Wednesday, November 2, 4pm, 3401 Sterling Hall

Open Seminar for Students, Faculty and Public

Thursday, November 3, 12:20pm, 8108 Social Science

A man with a wide smile looks into the camera. His straight white hair is short and appears slightly windblown. He wears a French blue button-down shirt. He stands before a lush green background.MICHAEL MANN is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Honorary Professor at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Incoherent Empire (awarded the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Prize), The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing (recipient of the ASA’s Barrington Moore Award), Fascists, and most notably the multi-volume The Sources of Social Power, the last two volumes of which (Global Empires and Revolution 1890-1945 and Globalizations 1945-2011) were published by Cambridge University Press in 2012 and 2013 respectively.