TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rasler,Karen A.
AU  - Thompson,William R.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Puzzles of the democratic peace: theory, geopolitics, and the transformation of world politics 
T2  - Evolutionary processes in world politics
AV  - JZ5538 .R37 2005eb
U1  - 327.1/72 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Peace
KW  - Democratization
KW  - Democracy
KW  - International relations
KW  - World politics
KW  - 1989-
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Pt. 1. Introduction -- 1. Developing perspective on democratic peace phenomena -- Pt. 2. Contexts in which democracies emerge : chickens or eggs? -- 2. External threat, domestic power concentration, and disputatious foreign policies -- 3. Questions of regional primacy -- Pt. 3. The relative strength of regime types in coercive contexts -- 4. Path-dependencies and foreign policy -- 5. Do rivalries trump regime type? -- 6. Do the gods of war really favor democracies? -- Pt. 4. The systemic context in which democracies compete -- 7. Do democratic-autocratic rivalries muddy the monadic waters? -- 8. Long-term structural change and regime type -- 9. Democratic alliance joining or changing system leader containment strategies? -- Pt. 5. Conclusion -- 10. History and selective transformations of world politics; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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