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The invisible hand of peace : capitalism, the war machine, and international relations theory /

The Invisible Hand of Peace shows that the domestic institutions associated with capitalism, namely private property and competitive market structures, have promoted peace between states over the past two centuries. It employs a wide range of historical and statistical evidence to illustrate both th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McDonald, Patrick J., 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Invisible Hand of Peace shows that the domestic institutions associated with capitalism, namely private property and competitive market structures, have promoted peace between states over the past two centuries. It employs a wide range of historical and statistical evidence to illustrate both the broad applicability of these claims and their capacity to generate new explanations of critical historical events, such as the emergence of the Anglo-American friendship at the end of the nineteenth century, the outbreak of World War I, and the evolution of the recent conflict across the Taiwan Strait. By showing that this capitalist peace has historically been stronger than the peace among democratic states, these findings also suggest that contemporary American foreign policy should be geared toward promoting economic liberalization rather than democracy in the post-9/11 world.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-330) and index.
ISBN:0511505000
9780511505003
9781139129923
1139129929
9780511818301
0511818300