ABSTRACT
The Conclusion summarizes the book’s findings and indicates conceptual and practical implications. It provides an overview of the developed sociological concept and illustrates it in the empirical analysis of coercive sanctions in the Cross-Strait conflict. It highlights the insights gained from the sociological perspective and its focus on conflict transformation. However, it also reflects on the limitations of the current study. The study argues that in terms of the implications of the investigation, conceptually the developed perspective deems different factors relevant for cooperation and non-cooperation, in contrast to many existing approaches, which overemphasize basic economic parameters.
Contrary to positivist contributions, the sociological approach does not aim for linear prediction. Instead it argues for contingent generalization and the use of perspectivist scenario building for informing practical knowledge on how to avert conflict deterioration.
