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Challenges that belief that "democracies don't fight each other"���'. This book 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.

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"Gowa has come out with the most important and sustained critique of [the democratic-peace argument]... This book will spark valuable discussion as the post cold-war world tests both the democratic-peace argument and Gowa's alternative."--Foreign Affairs

Table of Contents
List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction3Ch. 2Analytic Foundations of the Democratic Peace12Ch. 3Legislators, Voters, and the Use of Force Abroad28Ch. 4Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace44Ch. 5Interests and Alliances: Comparing Two International Systems68Appendix 5.AMajor-Power Alliance Dyads, 1870-190388Appendix 5.BMajor-Power Alliance Dyads, 1946-196188Ch. 6Explaining Relative Dispute-Rate Patterns89Ch. 7Conclusion109References115Index129

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 30/07/2000
      ISBN13: 9780691070223, 978-0691070223
      ISBN10: 0691070229
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Challenges that belief that "democracies don't fight each other"���'. This book 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.

      Trade Review
      "Gowa has come out with the most important and sustained critique of [the democratic-peace argument]... This book will spark valuable discussion as the post cold-war world tests both the democratic-peace argument and Gowa's alternative."--Foreign Affairs

      Table of Contents
      List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction3Ch. 2Analytic Foundations of the Democratic Peace12Ch. 3Legislators, Voters, and the Use of Force Abroad28Ch. 4Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace44Ch. 5Interests and Alliances: Comparing Two International Systems68Appendix 5.AMajor-Power Alliance Dyads, 1870-190388Appendix 5.BMajor-Power Alliance Dyads, 1946-196188Ch. 6Explaining Relative Dispute-Rate Patterns89Ch. 7Conclusion109References115Index129

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