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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russett, Bruce M
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1995
Princeton, N.J. : 1995
Edition:2nd print. with new pref. and corrections
Subjects:
War
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1 Fact of Democratic Peace
  • Emergence of Democratic Peace before World War I
  • 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 Imperfect Democratic Peace of Ancient Greece / Bruce Russett / William Antholis
  • 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 Democratic Peace since World War II / Bruce Russett / Zeev Maoz
  • Who and When
  • What Influences Conflict?
  • Democracy Matters
  • Norms and Institutional Constraints
  • Appendix: States and Their Political Regimes, 1946-1986
  • Ch. 5 Democratic Peace in Nonindustrial Societies / Bruce Russett / Carol R. Ember / Melvin Ember
  • Warfare and Participation
  • Participation Matters
  • Some Examples
  • Appendix: Codes for Political Decision-making
  • Ch. 6 Future of the Democratic Peace
  • Covert Action against Other Democracies
  • Discourse at the End of the Cold War
  • From the Inside Out
  • Strengthening Democracy and Its Norms
  • Can a Wider Democratic Peace Be Built?