Democracy and International Conflict
Subtitle: An Evaluation of the Democratic Peace Proposition (Studies in International Relations)
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr
Published: March 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781570032417
Subjects: International Relations; Peace studies; Political science & theory; Political structures: democracy; Warfare & Defence; Politics - Current Events; Democracy; Peaceful Settlements Of International Disputes; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Modern - 20th Century
First sentence: 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.