The present issue of our journal is devoted to the sociological analysis of armed conflicts – both international and domestic. In the history of political sociology the study of wars and other armed conflicts has a relatively brief history, as almost all studies in this field have been published after the second world war. In this respect Polish sociology played a pioneering role, with two studies on the
sociology of war published during the first world war (Adam Krzyżanowski’s and Mieczysław Szerer’s), and an interesting program of the sociology of war proposed by Aleksander Hertz briefly before the outbreak of the second world war.