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Democracy and International Conflict

Author : James Lee Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and International Conflict written by James Lee Ray and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Democracy and International Conflict James Lee Ray defends the idea, so optimistically advanced by diplomats in the wake of the Soviet Union's demise and so hotly debated by international relations scholars, that democratic states do not initiate war against one another and therefore offer an avenue to universal peace. Arguing that advocates of the democratic peace proposition have not adequately evaluated the impact of regime transition on democratization, Ray reviews every regime transition of the past 170 years and traces the extent to which democracy has prevailed in the global political system since 1825. His analysis reveals the important roles played by the international environment and by domestic factors in determining global movements toward or away from democracy. Ray also provides a simple, precise, and operational definition of democracy that serves as a basis for addressing the controversy surrounding the issue of whether democratic states have ever waged war against one another. He concludes that it is possible to defend the assertion that there has never been an international war between democratic states. Finally, Ray contends that because the number of wars eliminated by democracy's pacifying effect has been small, scholars must supplement quantitative analysis of a great number of cases with evidence generated by the intensive study of individual cases. He examines the relationship between these two types of analyses and demonstrates how they may be integrated to exploit their complementary virtues.

Democracy and War

Author : David L. Rousseau
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804767513
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and War written by David L. Rousseau and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom in international relations maintains that democracies are only peaceful when encountering other democracies. Using a variety of social scientific methods of investigation ranging from statistical studies and laboratory experiments to case studies and computer simulations, Rousseau challenges this conventional wisdom by demonstrating that democracies are less likely to initiate violence at early stages of a dispute. Using multiple methods allows Rousseau to demonstrate that institutional constraints, rather than peaceful norms of conflict resolution, are responsible for inhibiting the quick resort to violence in democratic polities. Rousseau finds that conflicts evolve through successive stages and that the constraining power of participatory institutions can vary across these stages. Finally, he demonstrates how constraint within states encourages the rise of clusters of democratic states that resemble "zones of peace" within the anarchic international structure.

Technology, Development, and Democracy

Author : Juliann Emmons Allison
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791489299
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Technology, Development, and Democracy by : Juliann Emmons Allison

Download or read book Technology, Development, and Democracy written by Juliann Emmons Allison and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of internet technologies on international politics.

Civil-Military Dynamics, Democracy, and International Conflict

Author : P. James
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403978255
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Civil-Military Dynamics, Democracy, and International Conflict written by P. James and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing decision-making over interstate disputes and the democratic peace thesis, Choi and James build an interactive foreign policy decision-making model with a special emphasis on civil-military relations, conscription, diplomatic channels and media openness. Each is significant in explaining decisions over dispute involvement. The temporal scope is broad while the geographic scope is global. The result is sophisticated analysis of the causes of conflict and factors that can ameliorate it, and a generalizable approach to the study of foreign relations. The findings that media openness contributes to peaceful resolution of disputes, that the greater the influence of the military the more likely for their to be interstate disputes, that conscription is likely to have the same effect, and that increases in diplomatic interaction correlate with increased conflict are sure to generate debate.

In War's Wake

Author : Elizabeth Kier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521157706
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book In War's Wake written by Elizabeth Kier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark interdisciplinary volume brings together distinguished historians, sociologists, and political scientists to examine the impact of war on democracy.

Democracy and Moral Conflict

Author : Robert B. Talisse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139479652
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Moral Conflict written by Robert B. Talisse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why democracy? Most often this question is met with an appeal to some decidedly moral value, such as equality, liberty, dignity or even peace. But in contemporary democratic societies, there is deep disagreement and conflict about the precise nature and relative worth of these values. And when democracy votes, some of those who lose will see the prevailing outcome as not merely disappointing, but morally intolerable. How should citizens react when confronted with a democratic result that they regard as intolerable? Should they revolt, or instead pursue democratic means of social change? In this book, Robert Talisse argues that each of us has reasons to uphold democracy - even when it makes serious moral errors - and that these reasons are rooted in our most fundamental epistemic commitments. His original and compelling study will be of interest to a wide range of readers in political philosophy and political theory.

The Territorial Peace

Author : Douglas M. Gibler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107016215
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Territorial Peace written by Douglas M. Gibler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas M. Gibler argues that threats to homeland territories force domestic political centralization within the state. Using an innovative theory of state development, he explains patterns of international conflict and democracy in the world over time.

The Democratic Peace and Territorial Conflict in the Twentieth Century

Author : Paul K. Huth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521805087
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Democratic Peace and Territorial Conflict in the Twentieth Century written by Paul K. Huth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Democracy and War

Author : Errol Anthony Henderson
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781588260765
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and War written by Errol Anthony Henderson and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henderson (political science, Wayne State U.) uses the same basic research design of the democratic peace proposition (DPP)--which contends that democracies rarely fight each other, are generally more peaceful than nondemocracies, and rarely experience civil war--to challenge the validity of the DPP. His results indicate that democracy is not significantly associated with a decreased likelihood of international war, militarized disputes, or civil wars in postcolonial states. He finds that in war between states and nonstate actors, such as colonial and imperial wars, democracies in general are less likely but Western states, specifically, are more likely to become involved in this type of "extrastate" war. He argues that global peace will require more than a worldwide spread of democracy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Debating the Democratic Peace

Author : Michael E. Brown
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262522137
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Debating the Democratic Peace written by Michael E. Brown and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996-05-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This timely reader includes some of the most influential articles in the debate that have appeared in the journal International Security during the past two years, adding two seminal pieces published elsewhere to make a more balanced and complete collection, suitable for classroom use.

Grasping the Democratic Peace

Author : Bruce Russet
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400821029
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Grasping the Democratic Peace written by Bruce Russet and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By illuminating the conflict-resolving mechanisms inherent in the relationships between democracies, Bruce Russett explains one of the most promising developments of the modern international system: the striking fact that the democracies that it comprises have almost never fought each other.

Democracy and Deep-rooted Conflict

Author : Peter Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Deep-rooted Conflict written by Peter Harris and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one build democracy in the aftermath of a violent, deep-rooted conflict? This handbook shows how to structure negotiations and design democratic institutions which address the real needs and interests of conflicting parties. It provides practical advice for policy-makers and political leaders in post-conflict societies and presents a wealth of options that can be drawn upon to build a sustainable peace. Aimed at those negotiating a peace settlement, this book provides a thorough overview of democratic levers - such as power-sharing formulas, questions of federalism and autonomy, options for electoral reform, when to use truth commissions, transitional justice mechanisms, methods of preserving minority rights, constitutional safeguards and many others. It also analyses actual negotiated settlements from various countries and illustrates the many, often unrecognized, options that negotiators can draw upon when attempting to build or rebuild democracy.

Democracy, Conflict and Human Security

Author : Judith Large
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Democracy, Conflict and Human Security written by Judith Large and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackles questions on how democracies can deliver social and economic rights, include all citizens in decision making and reduce poverty. This new publication is a two-volume set that explores ways in which democratic practice can contribute to the management of contemporary conflicts and promote the realization of security and development objectives. Volume I contains analysis and recommendations based on wide-ranging research and evaluation of lessons learned from democratization processes, past and ongoing. Volume II presents essays and case studies by leading specialists from around the world that further develop the themes and findings presented in Volume I. Democracy, Conflict and Human Security argues that effective democracy building moves beyond the process of elections and technical assistance and examines how democratic practice relates to human security. Governments may hold free elections but fall short in other democratic measures such as the separation of powers, the freedom of the press, and guarantees of human rights. These two volumes are aimed at practitioners, parliamentarians, politicians, government officials and policy makers concerned with problems such as social exclusion, the quality of democracy and new forms of authoritarian regimes.

Democracy and Conflict Resolution

Author : Miriam Fendius Elman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815652518
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Conflict Resolution written by Miriam Fendius Elman and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict typically focus on how international conditions drive the likelihood of conflict resolution. By contrast, Democracy and Conflict Resolution considers the understudied impact of domestic factors. Using the contested theory of “democratic peace” as a foundational framework, the contributors explore the effects of various internal influences on Israeli government practices related to peace-making: electoral systems, political parties, identity, leadership, and social movements. Most strikingly, Democracy and Conflict Resolution explores the possibility that features of democracy inhibit resolution of conflict, a possibility that resonates far outside the contested region. In reflecting on how domestic political configurations matter in a practical sense, this book offers policy-relevant and timely suggestions for advancing Israel’s capacity to pursue effective peacemaking policies.

War and Democratic Constraint

Author : Matthew A. Baum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400866472
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book War and Democratic Constraint written by Matthew A. Baum and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some democracies reflect their citizens' foreign policy preferences better than others? What roles do the media, political parties, and the electoral system play in a democracy's decision to join or avoid a war? War and Democratic Constraint shows that the key to how a government determines foreign policy rests on the transmission and availability of information. Citizens successfully hold their democratic governments accountable and a distinctive foreign policy emerges when two vital institutions—a diverse and independent political opposition and a robust media—are present to make timely information accessible. Matthew Baum and Philip Potter demonstrate that there must first be a politically potent opposition that can blow the whistle when a leader missteps. This counteracts leaders' incentives to obscure and misrepresent. Second, healthy media institutions must be in place and widely accessible in order to relay information from whistle-blowers to the public. Baum and Potter explore this communication mechanism during three different phases of international conflicts: when states initiate wars, when they respond to challenges from other states, or when they join preexisting groups of actors engaged in conflicts. Examining recent wars, including those in Afghanistan and Iraq, War and Democratic Constraint links domestic politics and mass media to international relations in a brand-new way.

All International Politics Is Local

Author : Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472023357
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book All International Politics Is Local written by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does regional interdependence influence the prospects for conflict, integration, and democratization? Some researchers look at the international system at large and disregard the enormous regional variations. Others take the concept of sovereignty literally and treat each nation-state as fully independent. Kristian Skrede Gleditsch looks at disparate zones in the international system to see how conflict, integration, and democracy have clustered over time and space. He argues that the most interesting aspects of international politics are regional rather than fully global or exclusively national. Differences in the local context of interaction influence states' international behavior as well as their domestic attributes. In All International Politics Is Local, Gleditsch clarifies that isolating the domestic processes within countries cannot account for the observed variation in distribution of political democracy over time and space, and that the likelihood of transitions is strongly related to changes in neighboring countries and the prior history of the regional context. Finally, he demonstrates how spatial and statistical techniques can be used to address regional interdependence among actors and its implications. Kristian Skrede Gleditsch is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.

New Explorations Into International Relations

Author : Seung-Whan Choi
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820349070
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book New Explorations Into International Relations written by Seung-Whan Choi and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses a range of issues surrounding the search for scientific truths in the study of international conflict and international political economy. Unlike empirical studies in other disciplines, says Seung-Whan Choi, many political studies seem more competent at presenting theoretical conjecture and hypotheses than they are at performing rigorous empirical analyses. When we study global issues like democratic institutions, flows of foreign direct investment, international terrorism, civil wars, and international conflict, we often uncritically adopt established theoretical frameworks and research designs. The natural assumption is that well-known and widely cited studies, once ingrained within the tradition of the discipline, should not be challenged or refuted. However, do such noted research areas reflect scientific truth? Choi looks closely at ten widely cited empirical studies that represent well-known research programs in international relations. His discussions address such statistical and theoretical issues as endogeneity bias, model specification error, fixed effects, theoretical predictability, outliers, normality of regression residuals, and choice of estimation techniques. In addition, scientific progress made by remarkable discoveries usually results from finding a new way of thinking about long-held scientific truths, therefore Choi also demonstrates how one may search for novel ideas at minimal cost by developing new research designs with original data. Here is a valuable resource for students, scholars, and policy makers who want to quickly grasp the evolutionary pattern of scientific research on democracy, foreign investment, terrorism, and conflict; build their research designs and choose appropriate statistical techniques; and identify their own agendas for the production of cutting-edge research.