Democratic Wars

Looking at the Dark Side of Democratic Peace

By: A. Geis (Editor), L. Brock (Editor), H. Mueller (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 May 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Despite the current rhetoric of Western leaders, democracies are great and frequent war-makers and interventionists. This fact stands in a strange contrast to the liberal self-image of democracies being particularly peaceful. Addressing this contrast, the book turns the 'democratic peace' theme on its head: rather than investigating the reasons for the supposed pacifism of democracies, it looks for the causes of their militancy. In order to solve this puzzle, the authors transcend the disciplinary boundaries of International Relations and draw on political theory, political philosophy and sociology.

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'... Democratic Wars raises many interesting theoretical issues and is timely in the light of the continuing debates within the democratic community over terrorism and the Iraq war.' - Geoffrey Wallace, Journal of Peace Research

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List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on the Contributors	p. x
Democracies and War: Theoretical Challenge and Empirical Findings
Introduction: the Theoretical Challenge of Democratic Wars	p. 3
Democratic Wars and Military Interventions, 1946-2002: the Monadic Level Reconsidered	p. 13
Democratic Wars as a Challenge to International Relations Theory
Democratic Peace: Many Data, Little Explanation?	p. 41
Democratic Peace-Democratic War: Three Reasons Why Democracies Are War-prone	p. 74
Triangulating War: the Use of Force by Democracies as a Variant of Democratic Peace	p. 90
Democracy, Peace and War: Perspectives from Political and Sociological Theory
On Democratic War Theory	p. 123
Spotting the 'Enemy'? Democracies and the Challenge of the 'Other'	p. 142
Sameness and Distinction: Understanding Democratic Peace in a Bourdieusian Perspective	p. 170
Conclusions
The Case for a New Research Agenda: Explaining Democratic Wars	p. 195
References	p. 215
Index	p. 240
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Looking at the Dark Side of Democratic Peace

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