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2023
Abstract: This book advances the theory that “democratic peace” does not exclusively refer to an absence of war among democracies but should also be thought of as a particular way of “doing, thinking, and feeling” peace. Democratic peace is not only then a statistical finding or a rhetorical commonplace invoked to justify foreign policy decisions ...
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Abstract: This book advances the theory that “democratic peace” does not exclusively refer to an absence of war among democracies but should also be thought of as a particular way of “doing, thinking, and feeling” peace. Democratic peace is not only then a statistical finding or a rhetorical commonplace invoked to justify foreign policy decisions ...
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American Political Science Review, 1998
The argument that democratization can bring about war is a powerful critique suggesting limits to the linkage between democracy and peace. This research examines this claim. Our findings demonstrate that democratizing polities are substantially less war prone than previously argued.
Michael D. Ward, Kristian S. Gleditsch
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The argument that democratization can bring about war is a powerful critique suggesting limits to the linkage between democracy and peace. This research examines this claim. Our findings demonstrate that democratizing polities are substantially less war prone than previously argued.
Michael D. Ward, Kristian S. Gleditsch
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From Democratic Peace to Democratic War?
Peace Review, 2007The “democratic peace” is not only a fancy idea of academia, most prominently advanced by the philosopher of Enlightenment Immanuel Kant in his famous essay on “Perpetual Peace” (1795), but two hun...
Anna Geis, Lothar Brock, Harald Müller
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Foreign Affairs, 1996
Are democracies less likely to go to war than other kinds of states? This question is of tremendous importance in both academic and policy-making circles and one that has been debated by political scientists for years. The Clinton administration, in particular, has argued that the United States should endeavor to promote democracy around the world ...
Francis Fukuyama, Michael E. Brown
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Are democracies less likely to go to war than other kinds of states? This question is of tremendous importance in both academic and policy-making circles and one that has been debated by political scientists for years. The Clinton administration, in particular, has argued that the United States should endeavor to promote democracy around the world ...
Francis Fukuyama, Michael E. Brown
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2017
The phenomenon of democratic peace more clearly extended beyond merely the rich industrialized countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). A simple dichotomy between democracy and autocracy, of course, hides real shades of difference, and mixed systems share features of both.
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The phenomenon of democratic peace more clearly extended beyond merely the rich industrialized countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). A simple dichotomy between democracy and autocracy, of course, hides real shades of difference, and mixed systems share features of both.
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Market Prosperity, Democratic Consolidation, and Democratic Peace
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2000A model is introduced that yields a single parsimonious explanation for a diverse range of political phenomena, including the processes of democratic consolidation and peace among democratic nations. The model predicts democratic values to arise from the norms of contract that are endemic in developed market economies and yields the novel contingent ...
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Peace Through Democratization?
1998Is successful democratic transition an effective tool for building international peace? Overall, the evidence presented in this book suggests a positive answer to this question. Although it does not contribute to the aggressiveness of transitional regimes, the successful process of democratization typically exerts no pacifying influence on foreign ...
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2006
It is difficult to mount and sustain arguments against liberalism, democracy or peace, either as individual concepts or as a triumvirate. Each has distinguished histories and merits, and is associated with noble causes, groups and individuals. Yet, this chapter contends that peculiar types of liberalism, democracy and peace have been awarded primacy by
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It is difficult to mount and sustain arguments against liberalism, democracy or peace, either as individual concepts or as a triumvirate. Each has distinguished histories and merits, and is associated with noble causes, groups and individuals. Yet, this chapter contends that peculiar types of liberalism, democracy and peace have been awarded primacy by
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Democratic Peace — Warlike Democracies?
European Journal of International Relations, 1995Democracies are Janus-faced. While they do not fight each other, they are frequently involved in militarized disputes and wars with authoritarian regimes. The article argues that these two empirical findings on the dyadic level are under-theorized. After reviewing the prevailing explanations for the `democratic peace', the article presents a social ...
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