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Democracy After the War (Classic Reprint)

Author : J. A. Hobson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267413553
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Democracy After the War (Classic Reprint) written by J. A. Hobson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy After the War Now, the first requisite to this clearing of purpose and this intelligent co-operation is a survey of the ground and forces of the enemy. For the people can only gain mastery by defeating and ejecting those who hold it now. The war has here done good service by lighting up the country and bringing out in clear relief the full alliance of reactionary forces with which democracy is called upon to deal. Militarism stands out so conspicuously in this alliance that it seems best to take it for a starting-point in our survey and then to consideij the political, economic and social supports which gather round it. Examining the bonds of sympathy and interest which unite the reactionary forces, we find them centred in the arbitrary will to power. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Democracy and Peace, the Position of the United States After the War (Classic Reprint)

Author : Robert Baylor Tunstall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330919071
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Peace, the Position of the United States After the War (Classic Reprint) written by Robert Baylor Tunstall and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy and Peace, the Position of the United States After the War The President's Peace Address One month ago to-day, the President of the United States, in an address animated by altruism and informed by idealism, formulated to the Senate, his fellow-counsellors in the conduct of our foreign affairs, his conceptions of such a League for Peace as this nation, having regard to its national policy and traditions, might enter after the war. Briefly stated, those conceptions included (a) government by the consent of the governed, which, from the context, seemed to relate rather to the preservation of the principle of nationality than to the matter of forms of government; (b) the possession, by each nation, of an outlet to the sea; (c) the freedom of the seas; and (d) a limitation of armaments. Enthusiasm For The President's Ideals Remarkable, if not unique, was the spirit in which this address was conceived and delivered. Coming from one chosen, in the fine phrase of John Quincy Adams, "by the people's unbought grace to rule his native land," it arrested universal attention, and, except for one expression to which I shall presently advert, the sentiments it expressed received admiring tribute from all parts of the world. But Hesitation As To His Recommendation The concrete recommendation made, however, was not so generally accepted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Problems of Readjustment After the War (Classic Reprint)

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428570590
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Problems of Readjustment After the War (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Problems of Readjustment After the War Is this the end of European democracy? Will example and military pressure cause the end of American democracy? Are the people of the world giving over their destinies to the judgment of a handful of statesmen and war i'loi's, practically designated by themselves? Have the peoples as a whole no wisdom left? Is there a difference in the makeup of the hu man mind between times of war and times of peace? Or when the cyclone is past, will the owners of the various ships of state again claim their right to their own property? These crit ical questions come home with peculiar force to the people of the United States; for popular government in America depends upon the power of democracy to repel the shock of mili tarism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The War and American Democracy (Classic Reprint)

Author : Wilbur Cortez Abbott
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267347728
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book The War and American Democracy (Classic Reprint) written by Wilbur Cortez Abbott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The War and American Democracy But it is, undoubtedly, due in still larger measure to the methods of war which Germany has re-introduced into a civilization whence men had fondly hoped, before this war began, they had been forever driven out, that the conﬂict has deepened in intensity. Whatever parts the governments may have played, recent events and observers unite in forc ing the conviction that this is now a peoples' war. That this is largely the effect of frightfulness no disinterested person can well deny; and Germany's best friends must deplore a policy which has lost her more than a great defeat, and recruited the ranks and determination of her opponents more than a victory of the Allies. If the latent barbarism beneath the veneer of civilization has proved greater than we thought, it is no less evident that men's nerves have not suffered as much deterioration from modern conditions as was believed by those who sought through such means to overpower these opponents. And the demonstrated futility of such operations, were there no other reason for their dis continuance, portends their re-elimination from the military code. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The War and Democracy (Classic Reprint)

Author : R. W. Seton-Watson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331328189
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book The War and Democracy (Classic Reprint) written by R. W. Seton-Watson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The War and Democracy It seems to me that the amount of lawlessness and crime, the amount of waste and futility, the amount of war and war possibility and war danger in the world are just the measure of the present inadequacy of the world's system of collective organisations to the purpose before them. It follows from this very directly that only one thing can end war on the earth, and that is a subtle mental development, an idea, the development of the idea of the world commonweal in the collective mind. - H. G. Wells in 1908. This is a testing time for Democracy. The people of Great Britain, to whom all the world looks as the trustees, together with France and America, of the great democratic tradition, are brought face to face, for the first time, with their full ultimate responsibility as British citizens. Upon the way in which that responsibility is realised and discharged de pends the future of the democratic principle, not only in these islands, but throughout the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Democracy After the War

Author : J. A. Hobson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330029541
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Democracy After the War written by J. A. Hobson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy After the War The cause of democracy has suffered almost as much from its friends as from its enemies. For while the latter have held it to be either undesirable or unattainable, the former have represented it either as achieved already or as inevitable. Now, neither of these former representations is true. Effective democracy nowhere exists either in the politics or industry of any nation. The forms of political self-government, indeed, exist in Britain, France, America and elsewhere with varying measures of completeness. But nowhere does the will of the people play freely through these forms. In every country the will of certain powerful men or interests is pumped down from above into the party machinery that it may come up with the formal register of an electorate denied the knowledge and opportunity to create and exercise a will that is informed and free. Popular opinion and aspirations act at best as exceedingly imperfect checks on these abuses of political self-government. So evident has been the failure of all democratic forms hitherto devised that hostile critics have pronounced democracy incapable of realization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Democracy in Reconstruction (Classic Reprint)

Author : Frederick A. Cleveland
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333357634
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Reconstruction (Classic Reprint) written by Frederick A. Cleveland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy in Reconstruction America and Europe. War-swept Europe avowedly ap proaches reconstruction as an inescapable problem growing out of the material and human devastation wrought by the holocaust of the last four years. We Americans, standing in safety behind the wide barrier of the sea, touched by the War only so far as we came into it during its later stages, are fondly protesting our immunity from a similar com pulsion. We look about over our imperial domain, un scarred by high explosives, peaceful, smiling, productive; and upon our people whose happy fortune it was to have helped mightily while suffering comparatively light losses; we see the roystering prosperity incident to the War still trying to persist in many of its manifestations, and we are loath to admit that the word reconstruction has any relev ancy here. Our case, it seems to us, is unique. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Political Systems in Transition

Author : Charles G. Fenwick
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528450263
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Political Systems in Transition written by Charles G. Fenwick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Political Systems in Transition: War-Time and After In view of the urgency and importance of the issues thus raised it cannot be said that even the democratic nations have escaped from the war with their political systems unshaken by the great conﬂict. Their constitutions may be for the time intact, but they have entered upon a period of transition in which it is to be determined whether democracy can hold its own not only against the enemy from without but against the disintegrating forces from within. The present study is an attempt to survey the changes brought about by the war in the governments of the great nations, and particularly in that of the United States, and in so doing to exhibit, by comparison and contrast, the relative strength and weakness of the several political systems and the probable lines of future reconstrue tion. In the case of the United States special attention has been given to the constitutional questions involved in the ad justment of the government to the demands of the war, both for the purpose of making clear the principles involved in the measures taken by the Government and in order to emphasize the peculiar problems of reorganization with which the Govern ment is confronted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

After War

Author : Christopher J. Coyne
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804754392
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book After War written by Christopher J. Coyne and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-conflict reconstruction is one of the most pressing political issues today. This book uses economics to analyze critically the incentives and constraints faced by various actors involved in reconstruction efforts. Through this analysis, the book will aid in understanding why some reconstructions are more successful than others.

Liberty and Democracy and Other Essays in War-Time (Classic Reprint)

Author : Hartley Burr Alex
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365319009
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Liberty and Democracy and Other Essays in War-Time (Classic Reprint) written by Hartley Burr Alex and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Liberty and Democracy and Other Essays in War-Time But while a programme of reconstruction is yet to make, it may be worth a word here to define the line which the author's thinking repeatedly brings him to believe such te construction must follow. This is the educa tional, not in any narrow scholastic way, but broadly, touching the whole life of the citizen and the whole endeavour of the state. Democracy can only ﬂourish where the citi zens are both intelligent and alert, intelligent as to the purposes of their society and alert as to the means of attaining these: unceasing vigilance is the preserver of freedom, but this must be accompanied by a no less unceasing consideration of the ends of human life if the liberty is to be worth preserving. He who would duly enquire about the best form of the state ought first to determine which is the most eligible life. Aristotle's aphorism is the core of political wisdom; and its applied meaning can only be that the citizen who is a true warden of his rights must be an athlete of the mind, forever trained and in training. The problem of due training is the problem of political self-preservation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Democracy and Peace (Classic Reprint)

Author : James Bissett Pratt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528498845
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Peace (Classic Reprint) written by James Bissett Pratt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy and Peace This is not a war book. It is a book about democracy and peace, about America's ideals, her duties and her dangers. Incidentally it discusses some of the problems raised by the present con ﬂiet. And its position on these questions is not one that is likely to please every reader. For the writer of this book is a pacificist who believes in war. His conclusions, therefore, will probably gain the approval of neither the militarists nor the peace-at-any-price men. Nor will they suit that large class of out - and-outers who have no patience with any statement that has qualifications. The situation which we are facing today is, in the au thor's opinion, too complex to be expressed in a simple formula. A statement of our national duty which would be at all complete must contain more than one qualifying phrase. The truth about America cannot be compressed into a slogan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The World War, Jefferson and Democracy (Classic Reprint)

Author : Franklin P. Foster
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483233140
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book The World War, Jefferson and Democracy (Classic Reprint) written by Franklin P. Foster and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World War, Jefferson and Democracy Boldly advocated friendly and considerate treatment of her in the times succeeding the contribution of her arms to the triumph of our independence; who alone of great Americans in his day placed a sane and kindly estimate on the character Of the French patriots and people, or on the cause and virtue of their revolution;1 who was standing for peace between the United States and France, in 1797, when partisan enemies, under a pretext Of doubtful merit, were crying for her invasion by an American army. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The World War and Leadership in a Democracy (Classic Reprint)

Author : Richard Theodore Ely
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267168446
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book The World War and Leadership in a Democracy (Classic Reprint) written by Richard Theodore Ely and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World War and Leadership in a Democracy While the lecture has been very greatly elaborated, the book is still very brief. Each of the several chapters could be expanded to an entire treatise. Perhaps, however, what is needed now is an out line programme for present use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Democracy Versus Autocracy

Author : Karl Frederick Geiser
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528071536
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book Democracy Versus Autocracy written by Karl Frederick Geiser and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy Versus Autocracy: A Comparative Study of Governments in the World War When President Wilson gave expression to the now famous phrase, We are fighting to make the world safe for democracy, he uttered a profound truth. He saw in the conﬂict in which America is engaged in association with the Allies, a struggle between two political ideals; these two ideals, when expressed in form and practice of government, are in their nature either monarchic or democratic. The one ideal is accepted by Germany; the other by the United States; the one means a government imposed from above; the other a government by the consent of the governed; the one means an irresponsible autocracy; the other a government responsible to the people a democracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Democracy and Reaction (Classic Reprint)

Author : L. T. Hobhouse
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260091567
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Reaction (Classic Reprint) written by L. T. Hobhouse and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy and Reaction Braced the Imperial mission, and beginning a war with an appeal to the sentiment of humanity, ended it, after the manner of the Old World, with the acquisition of territory beyond the seas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Democracies at War

Author : Dan Reiter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824451
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Democracies at War written by Dan Reiter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do democracies win wars? This is a critical question in the study of international relations, as a traditional view--expressed most famously by Alexis de Tocqueville--has been that democracies are inferior in crafting foreign policy and fighting wars. In Democracies at War, the first major study of its kind, Dan Reiter and Allan Stam come to a very different conclusion. Democracies tend to win the wars they fight--specifically, about eighty percent of the time. Complementing their wide-ranging case-study analysis, the authors apply innovative statistical tests and new hypotheses. In unusually clear prose, they pinpoint two reasons for democracies' success at war. First, as elected leaders understand that losing a war can spell domestic political backlash, democracies start only those wars they are likely to win. Secondly, the emphasis on individuality within democratic societies means that their soldiers fight with greater initiative and superior leadership. Surprisingly, Reiter and Stam find that it is neither economic muscle nor bandwagoning between democratic powers that enables democracies to win wars. They also show that, given societal consent, democracies are willing to initiate wars of empire or genocide. On the whole, they find, democracies' dependence on public consent makes for more, rather than less, effective foreign policy. Taking a fresh approach to a question that has long merited such a study, this book yields crucial insights on security policy, the causes of war, and the interplay between domestic politics and international relations.

How the War for Democracy Can Be Won (Classic Reprint)

Author : Isaac Lockhart Peebles
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484494922
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book How the War for Democracy Can Be Won (Classic Reprint) written by Isaac Lockhart Peebles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from How the War for Democracy Can Be Won much is being said and written about war, and hence we have concluded that a Scriptural production on the subject will be pertinent just now, and especially helpful towards the ending of the one now in pro gress in the orient. Therefore, whatever this work shall do towards that end, we shall gladly give all the glory and honor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.