Reliable Partners : : How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace / / Charles Lipson.
Democracies often go to war but almost never against each other. Indeed, "the democratic peace" has become a catchphrase among scholars and even U.S. Presidents. But why do democracies avoid fighting each other? Reliable Partners offers the first systematic and definitive explanation. Exam...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2 line illus. 4 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Argument in a Nutshell
- 2. Is There Really Peace among Democracies?
- 3. A Contracting Theory of the Democratic Peace and Its Alternatives
- 4. Why Democratic Bargains Are Reliable: Constitutions, Open Politics, and the Electorate
- 5. Leadership Succession as a Cause of War: The Structural Advantage of Democracies
- 6. Extending the Argument: Implications of Secure Contracting among Constitutional Democracies
- 7. Conclusion: Reliable Partners and Reliable Peace
- Notes
- Index