In Democracy and International Conflict, James Lee Ray defends the idea, so optimistically advanced by diplomats in the wake of the Soviet Union’s demise and so hotly debated by international relations scholars, that democratic states do not initiate war against one another and therefore offer an avenue to universal peace. Ray acknowledges that despite persuasive theoretical arguments and empirical evidence in favor of this idea, the democratic peace proposition is susceptible to attack on three points: the statistical rarity of both international wars and democracies; the difficulty in defining democracy; and the vulnerability of democratic regimes. To confront these criticisms, Ray offers a systematic analysis of regime transitions and a workable definition of democracy as well as careful scrutiny of cases in which democracies averted international conflict.
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“Ray provides us with a landmark statement on the democratic peace that will demand close attention from the proposition’s proponents and opponents alike. . . . This is a book with something of genuine value for anyone seriously interested in democracy or international conflict and should be essential reading for those conversant in the contemporary debate over the democratic peace.”—American Political Science Review
“This book represents a significant contribution to the growing literature on the democratic peace proposition.”—Political Science Quarterly
“Given its widespread appeal and dramatic implications, a thorough, readable evaluation of the democratic peace proposition is of great value. Ray’s work provides such an evaluation, extending current research in a way that is useful to the scholar, instructive to the practitioner, and accessible to the nonspecialist.”—The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
“This book represents a significant contribution to the growing literature on the democratic peace proposition.”—Political Science Quarterly
“Given its widespread appeal and dramatic implications, a thorough, readable evaluation of the democratic peace proposition is of great value. Ray’s work provides such an evaluation, extending current research in a way that is useful to the scholar, instructive to the practitioner, and accessible to the nonspecialist.”—The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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James Lee Ray is a professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. He previously taught at Florida State University, where he directed the International Affairs and the Peace Studies.
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The basic idea that autocracy or dictatorship is an important cause of war that can be eliminated by democracy, because democratic states will have peaceful relationships with each other, has philosophical roots that antedate the middle 1980s and the end of the Cold War by about two hundred years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
system level forces, average democracy score, democratic peace proposition, war between democratic states, joint democracy, pacifying impact, least half the adult population, conflict proneness, wars between democratic states, pacifying potential, democratic pairs, democracy scores, less war prone, relationship between regime type, constitutional transfers, less conflict prone, static group comparison, decisional constraints, mixed dyads, formal modelers, libertarian states, plausible rival hypothesis, established general pattern, democratic dyads, war proneness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Bueno de Mesquita, Soviet Union, Fashoda Crisis, Spanish-American War, Great Britain, World War, Freedom House, Correlates of War, Eastern Europe, Cold War, Orange Free State, Bruce Russett, Kenneth Waltz, Latin America, Middle East, South African Republic, Boer War, French Revolution, Samuel Huntington, United Provinces, American Civil War, Donald Campbell, Louis Napoleon, Van Schoor New!
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The basic idea that autocracy or dictatorship is an important cause of war that can be eliminated by democracy, because democratic states will have peaceful relationships with each other, has philosophical roots that antedate the middle 1980s and the end of the Cold War by about two hundred years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
system level forces, average democracy score, democratic peace proposition, war between democratic states, joint democracy, pacifying impact, least half the adult population, conflict proneness, wars between democratic states, pacifying potential, democratic pairs, democracy scores, less war prone, relationship between regime type, constitutional transfers, less conflict prone, static group comparison, decisional constraints, mixed dyads, formal modelers, libertarian states, plausible rival hypothesis, established general pattern, democratic dyads, war proneness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Bueno de Mesquita, Soviet Union, Fashoda Crisis, Spanish-American War, Great Britain, World War, Freedom House, Correlates of War, Eastern Europe, Cold War, Orange Free State, Bruce Russett, Kenneth Waltz, Latin America, Middle East, South African Republic, Boer War, French Revolution, Samuel Huntington, United Provinces, American Civil War, Donald Campbell, Louis Napoleon, Van Schoor New!
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- The Correlates of War (v. 1) by David Singer on 8 pages
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- Perpetual Peace, and Other Essays on Politics, History, and Morals (HPC Classics Series) by Immanuel Kant on 5 pages
- The War Trap by Professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on 4 pages
- A History of South Africa, Third Edition by Leonard Thompson on page 116, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Divided Union: The Politics of War in the Early American Republic (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Scott A. Silverstone on page 4, and page 69
- The War Over Perpetual Peace: An Exploration into the History of a Foundational International Relations Text (Palgrave MacMillan Series on the History of International Th) by Eric Easley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Liberal Peace, Liberal War: American Politics and International Security (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by John M. Owen on page 3, and page 235
- Legitimacy and Power Politics: The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics) by Mlada Bukovansky on page 40, and Back Matter
- New Institutionalism: Theory and Analysis (Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy) by Andr? Lecours on page 314
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