Ballots and Bullets
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Aftermath of World War II
Allied Control Council
Anglo-Austrian Alliance
Anglo-Russian Entente
Austria-Hungary
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Autocracy
Balkans
Bipartisanship
Bivariate analysis
Brookings Institution
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Coefficient
Cold War
Conflict resolution
Conscription
Correlates of War
De jure
Defense pact
Democracy
Democratic peace theory
Democratization
Determinant
Dummy variable (statistics)
Entente Cordiale
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European Defence Community
Explanation
Foreign policy
Franco-Prussian War
Franco-Russian Alliance
Great power
Head of state
International organization
International relations
James D. Morrow
Legislator
Legislature
Literature
Market power
Militarized interstate dispute
Multilateral Force
NATO
On War
Operation Barbarossa
Opportunity cost
Overdispersion
P-value
Pearson's chi-squared test
Percentage point
Political science
Politics
Probability
Public good
Reinsurance Treaty
Result
Revisionist State
Robert J. Art
Russo-Japanese War
Sino-Soviet split
Soviet Union
Statistic
Statistical significance
Tariff
Tories (British political party)
Trade barrier
Treaty of Dunkirk
Treaty of San Stefano
Voting
Welfare
World war
World War I
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9780691070223
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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There is a widespread belief, among both political scientists and government policymakers, that "democracies don't fight each other." Here Joanne Gowa challenges that belief. In a thorough, systematic critique, she shows that, while democracies were less likely than other states to engage each other in armed conflicts between 1945 and 1980, they were just as likely to do so as were other states before 1914. Thus, no reason exists to believe that a democratic peace will survive the end of the Cold War. Since U.S. foreign policy is currently directed toward promoting democracy abroad, Gowa's findings are especially timely and worrisome. Those who assert that a democratic peace exists typically examine the 1815-1980 period as a whole. In doing so, they conflate two very different historical periods: the pre-World War I and post-World War II years. Examining these periods separately, Gowa shows that a democratic peace prevailed only during the later period. Given the collapse of the Cold War world, her research calls into question both the conclusions of previous researchers and the wisdom of present U.S. foreign policy initiatives.
By re-examining the arguments and data that have been used to support beliefs about a democratic peace, Joanne Gowa has produced a thought-provoking book that is sure to be controversial.
Joanne Gowa is Professor of World Politics of Peace and War at Princeton University. She is the author of Allies, Adversaries, and International Trade (Princeton) and Closing the Gold Window: Domestic Politics and the End of Bretton Woods.
