Grasping the democratic peace : principles for a post-Cold War world /

Is Communism's collapse merely the passing of a particularly lethal adversarial relationship between the super powers - or an extraordinary chance to make fundamental changes in how nations resolve conflicts? In answering this query, Bruce Russett shows that the world's great nations now h...

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Author / Creator: Russett, Bruce M. (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:2nd print. with new pref. and corrections.
Imprint: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
War
Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • Preface (1995)
  • Acknowledgments
  • Ch. 1. The Fact of Democratic Peace
  • The Emergence of Democratic Peace before World War I
  • The Spread of Democratic Peace
  • Democracy, War, and Other Ambiguous Terms
  • Some Alleged Wars between Democracies
  • Ch. 2. Why Democratic Peace?
  • Alternative Explanations
  • Democratic Norms and Culture?
  • Structural and Institutional Constraints?
  • Distinguishing the Explanations
  • Ch. 3. The Imperfect Democratic Peace of Ancient Greece
  • Democracy, Autonomy, and War in Ancient Greece
  • Who Fought Whom?
  • When and Why Did Democracies Fight Each Other?
  • Norms and Perceptions
  • Appendix: Greek City-States in the Peloponnesian War: Their Domestic Regimes and Who They Fought
  • Ch. 4. The Democratic Peace since World War II
  • Who and When
  • What Influences Conflict?
  • Democracy Matters
  • Norms and Institutional Constraints
  • Appendix: States and Their Political Regimes, 1946-1986
  • Ch. 5. The Democratic Peace in Nonindustrial Societies
  • Warfare and Participation
  • Participation Matters
  • Some Examples
  • Appendix: Codes for Political Decision-making
  • Ch. 6. The Future of the Democratic Peace
  • Covert Action against Other Democracies
  • The Discourse at the End of the Cold War
  • From the Inside Out
  • Strengthening Democracy and Its Norms
  • Can a Wider Democratic Peace Be Built?
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index