ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the study of the fluctuations of war, as the vastest and sharpest form of external or intergroup disturbances. It deals with the fluctuation of the internal disturbances or revolutions in the field of the system of social relationships. Any organized intragroup or intergroup system of social relationships experiences change in the process of its existence. The change may be orderly, brought about by the constituted authorities of the group, according to its written or unwritten laws and constitution, or according to the desires and mores of its members. The organized network of relationships of a given group, or the system of intergroup relationships, breaks down, contrary to, the laws, constitution, mores, and authorities. The relative indicators for Greece and Roman Italy are not greatly different from each other nor from those for the European countries which we see later. Their minima are near to the minima for the European countries; their maxima are near to European maxima.
