Russet / Russett Grasping the Democratic Peace

Principles for a Post-Cold War World
With a New preface by the author
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2102-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Russet, Bruce

Russett, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface (1995)

Acknowledgments

Ch. 1 The Fact of Democratic Peace 3

The Emergence of Democratic Peace before World War I 5

The Spread of Democratic Peace 9

Democracy, War, and Other Ambiguous Terms 11

Some Alleged Wars between Democracies 16

Ch. 2 Why Democratic Peace? 24

Alternative Explanations 25

Democratic Norms and Culture? 30

Structural and Institutional Constraints? 38

Distinguishing the Explanations 40

Ch. 3 The Imperfect Democratic Peace of Ancient Greece 43

Democracy, Autonomy, and War in Ancient Greece 43

Who Fought Whom? 51

When and Why Did Democracies Fight Each Other? 54

Norms and Perceptions 59

Appendix: Greek City-States in the Peloponnesian War: Their Domestic Regimes and Who They Fought 63

Ch. 4 The Democratic Peace since World War II 72

Who and When 73

What Influences Conflict? 76

Democracy Matters 84

Norms and Institutional Constraints 86

Appendix: States and Their Political Regimes, 1946-1986 94

Ch. 5 The Democratic Peace in Nonindustrial Societies 99

Warfare and Participation 100

Participation Matters 105

Some Examples 111

Appendix: Codes for Political Decision-making 115

Ch. 6 The Future of the Democratic Peace 119

Covert Action against Other Democracies 120

The Discourse at the End of the Cold War 124

From the Inside Out 129

Strengthening Democracy and Its Norms 131

Can a Wider Democratic Peace Be Built? 135

Notes 139

References 151

Index 167

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Russett is Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Yale University and editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution. His many works include Controlling the Sword: The Democratic Governance of National Security and The Prisoners of Insecurity: Nuclear Deterrence, the Arms Race, and Arms Control. In writing Grasping the Democratic Peace, he was accompanied by anthropologists Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember and political scientists William Antholis and Zeev Maoz.