Lipson Reliable Partners

How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5072-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Charles Lipson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he founded and codirects PIPES, the Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security. He is the author of Standing Guard: Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lipson, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Tables and Figures, pg. ix
Acknowledgments, pg. xi
1. The Argument in a Nutshell, pg. 1
2. Is There Really Peace among Democracies?, pg. 17
3. A Contracting Theory of the Democratic Peace and Its Alternatives, pg. 47
4. Why Democratic Bargains Are Reliable: Constitutions, Open Politics, and the Electorate, pg. 77
5. Leadership Succession as a Cause of War: The Structural Advantage of Democracies, pg. 112
6. Extending the Argument: Implications of Secure Contracting among Constitutional Democracies, pg. 139
7. Conclusion: Reliable Partners and Reliable Peace, pg. 169
Notes, pg. 191
Index, pg. 249

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Lipson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he founded and codirects PIPES, the Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security. He is the author of Standing Guard: Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.