Reliable partners : how democracies have made a separate peace /
Democracies often go to war but almost never against each other. Indeed, "the democratic peace" has become a catchphrase among scholars and even U.S. Presidents. But why do democracies avoid fighting each other? Reliable Partners offers the first systematic and definitive explanation. Exam...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
2003
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The argument in a nutshell
- Is there really peace among democracies?
- A contracting theory of the democratic peace and its alternatives
- Why democratic bargains are reliable : constitutions, open politics, and the electorate
- Leadership succession as a cause of war : the structural advantage of democracies
- Extending the argument : implications of secure contracting among constitutional democracies
- Conclusion: reliable partners and reliable peace.