---
_id: '54545'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>\r\n               <jats:p>This book combines
    theoretical and empirical research across various academic disciplines, including
    economics, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and political science, to describe
    why individuals adopt political ideologies and how this choice can potentially
    exacerbate conflict and violence. Ideology is particularly important to conflict.
    Data on intra- and international conflict shows that the number of ideologically
    driven conflicts has increased tremendously in recent decades. Although some researchers
    have started to investigate extensively the link between ideology and conflict,
    they struggle to find holistic explanations through which ideologies might shape
    conflict. This book addresses this effort by providing an interrelated multidisciplinary
    framework to explain the multidimensional functions of ideology. It illustrates
    that ideologies are not only capable of shaping conflictual behavior or mobilizing
    political actors, but also of addressing human needs, desires, and preferences.
    Hence, this book seeks to explain how individuals adopt ideologies that match
    their underlying needs and preferences; that ideologies have the capacity to reconcile
    deprived psychological human needs; and that radical groups and organizations
    use ideologies to recruit individuals and pursue their objectives. To understand
    these relationships better and to apply the theoretical background to real-world
    situations, we include real-life cases that describe how depriving individuals
    of resources that satisfy their underlying needs and preferences can lead them
    to adopt particular ideologies that are disseminated by radical groups or organizations.
    These radical groups or organizations then make decisions, which can potentially
    lead to conflict onset and continuous long-term struggles.</jats:p>"
alternative_title:
- From Human Needs to Intergroup Violence
author:
- first_name: Veronika
  full_name: Müller, Veronika
  last_name: Müller
- first_name: Thomas
  full_name: Gries, Thomas
  id: '186'
  last_name: Gries
citation:
  ama: Müller V, Gries T. <i>Ideology and the Microfoundations of Conflict</i>. Oxford
    University PressNew York; 2024. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197670187.001.0001">10.1093/oso/9780197670187.001.0001</a>
  apa: Müller, V., &#38; Gries, T. (2024). <i>Ideology and the Microfoundations of
    Conflict</i>. Oxford University PressNew York. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197670187.001.0001">https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197670187.001.0001</a>
  bibtex: '@book{Müller_Gries_2024, title={Ideology and the Microfoundations of Conflict},
    DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197670187.001.0001">10.1093/oso/9780197670187.001.0001</a>},
    publisher={Oxford University PressNew York}, author={Müller, Veronika and Gries,
    Thomas}, year={2024} }'
  chicago: Müller, Veronika, and Thomas Gries. <i>Ideology and the Microfoundations
    of Conflict</i>. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197670187.001.0001">https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197670187.001.0001</a>.
  ieee: V. Müller and T. Gries, <i>Ideology and the Microfoundations of Conflict</i>.
    Oxford University PressNew York, 2024.
  mla: Müller, Veronika, and Thomas Gries. <i>Ideology and the Microfoundations of
    Conflict</i>. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197670187.001.0001">10.1093/oso/9780197670187.001.0001</a>.
  short: V. Müller, T. Gries, Ideology and the Microfoundations of Conflict, Oxford
    University PressNew York, 2024.
date_created: 2024-06-02T19:57:33Z
date_updated: 2025-07-13T17:58:28Z
department:
- _id: '19'
- _id: '200'
- _id: '202'
- _id: '475'
doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197670187.001.0001
has_accepted_license: '1'
language:
- iso: eng
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '0197670180'
  - '9780197670187'
  - '9780197670217'
publication_status: published
publisher: Oxford University PressNew York
status: public
title: Ideology and the Microfoundations of Conflict
type: book
user_id: '186'
year: '2024'
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