The Militant Face of Democracy
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The Militant Face of Democracy

Liberal Forces for Good

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eBook - PDF

The Militant Face of Democracy

Liberal Forces for Good

About this book

Democratic peace theory - the argument that democracies very rarely go to war with each other - has come under attack recently for being too naïve and for neglecting the vast amount of wars fought by democracies, especially since the end of the Cold War. This volume offers a fresh perspective by arguing that the same norms that are responsible for the democratic peace can be argued to be responsible for democratic war-proneness. The authors show that democratic norms, which are usually understood to cause peaceful behaviour, are heavily contested when dealing with a non-democratic other. The book thus integrates democratic peace and democratic war into one consistent theoretical perspective, emphasising the impact of national identity. The book concludes by arguing that all democracies have a 'weak spot' where they would be willing to engage militarily.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Militant Face of Democracy
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Figures
  7. Tables
  8. Contributors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Abbreviations
  11. Part I Introduction
  12. 1 Investigating ‘democratic wars’ as the flipside of ‘democratic peace’
  13. 2 The empirical study of ‘democratic wars’
  14. Part II Opting in, opting out
  15. 3 The United States
  16. 4 ‘The right thing to do’?
  17. 5 ‘O ally, stand by me’
  18. 6 Canada
  19. 7 French ambiguities
  20. 8 Burdens of the past, shadows of the future
  21. 9 Moving beyond neutrality
  22. Part III Conclusion
  23. 10 Liberal democracies as militant ‘forces for good’
  24. 11 The appropriateness of the liberal use of force
  25. Appendix: methodology
  26. Index