Puzzles of the democratic peace [electronic resource] : theory, geopolitics, and the transformation of world politics / Karen Rasler and William R. Thompson.
By: Rasler, Karen A.
Contributor(s): Thompson, William R | ebrary, Inc
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Series: Evolutionary processes in world politics series: Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005Description: x, 271 p. : ill.Subject(s): Peace | Democratization![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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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.
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