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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.
"Russett finds this [the proposition that democracies do not fight each other] to be an extraordinarily robust conclusion... [The book] presents a challenge to realists while providing a rigorous undergirding to what has become a widespread view."--Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs "The ambition and scope of the study provides the illuminating and unexpected insights into the relationships between war and democracy."--Roland Dannreuther, Survival "The descriptive phase of scholarly research on the absence of war between democratic dyads has been largely completed, and attention is now shifting to alternative explanations for this well-confirmed empirical generalization. The best place to begin, both for a summary of the descriptive evidence and for an attempt to explain it, is Bruce Russett's Grasping the Democratic Peace."--Jack S. Levy, International Studies Review "In Grasping the Democratic Peace, Bruce Russett has published a powerful book clarifying the theoretical debate and producing additional support for the relative pacifism of democracies from previously untapped sources. The book will quickly claim a secure place in the literature for its insight and empirical originality. No student of international relations can fail to profit from a close read."---David A. Lake, The Journal of Politics "Bruce Russett's laudable book summarizes, dissects, and expands our understanding of the disinclination shown by democracies to fight each other, a finding that has spawned a minor cottage industry of analytic studies... the book combines rigor and relevance, maturity and originality..."--American Political Science Review
| Preface (1995) | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| The Fact of Democratic Peace | p. 3 |
| The Emergence of Democratic Peace before World War I | p. 5 |
| The Spread of Democratic Peace | p. 9 |
| Democracy, War, and Other Ambiguous Terms | p. 11 |
| Some Alleged Wars between Democracies | p. 16 |
| Why Democratic Peace? | p. 24 |
| Alternative Explanations | p. 25 |
| Democratic Norms and Culture? | p. 30 |
| Structural and Institutional Constraints? | p. 38 |
| Distinguishing the Explanations | p. 40 |
| The Imperfect Democratic Peace of Ancient Greece | p. 43 |
| Democracy, Autonomy, and War in Ancient Greece | p. 43 |
| Who Fought Whom? | p. 51 |
| When and Why Did Democracies Fight Each Other? | p. 54 |
| Norms and Perceptions | p. 59 |
| Appendix: Greek City-States in the Peloponnesian War | |
| Their Domestic Regimes and Who They Fought | p. 63 |
| The Democratic Peace since World War II | p. 72 |
| Who and When | p. 73 |
| What Influences Conflict? | p. 76 |
| Democracy Matters | p. 84 |
| Norms and Institutional Constraints | p. 86 |
| Appendix: States and Their Political Regimes, 1946-1986 | p. 94 |
| The Democratic Peace in Nonindustrial Societies | p. 99 |
| Warfare and Participation | p. 100 |
| Participation Matters | p. 105 |
| Some Examples | p. 111 |
| Appendix: Codes for Political Decision-making | p. 115 |
| The Future of the Democratic Peace | p. 119 |
| Covert Action against Other Democracies | p. 120 |
| The Discourse at the End of the Cold War | p. 124 |
| From the Inside Out | p. 129 |
| Strengthening Democracy and Its Norms | p. 131 |
| Can a Wider Democratic Peace Be Built? | p. 135 |
| Notes | p. 139 |
| References | p. 151 |
| Index | p. 167 |
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ISBN: 9780691001647
ISBN-10: 0691001642
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 192
Published: 19th December 1994
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 24.13 x 15.88
x 1.27
Weight (kg): 0.28
Edition Type: Revised
