Democracy and War
eBook - ePub

Democracy and War

Institutions, Norms, and the Evolution of International Conflict

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Democracy and War

Institutions, Norms, and the Evolution of International Conflict

About this book

Conventional wisdom in international relations maintains that democracies are only peaceful when encountering other democracies. Using a variety of social scientific methods of investigation ranging from statistical studies and laboratory experiments to case studies and computer simulations, Rousseau challenges this conventional wisdom by demonstrating that democracies are less likely to initiate violence at early stages of a dispute. Using multiple methods allows Rousseau to demonstrate that institutional constraints, rather than peaceful norms of conflict resolution, are responsible for inhibiting the quick resort to violence in democratic polities. Rousseau finds that conflicts evolve through successive stages and that the constraining power of participatory institutions can vary across these stages. Finally, he demonstrates how constraint within states encourages the rise of clusters of democratic states that resemble "zones of peace" within the anarchic international structure.

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Table of contents

  1. Copyright Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Table of Contents
  4. List of Tables
  5. Table of Figures
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. CHAPTER 1 - Introduction: Domestic Institutions, Political Norms, and the Evolution of International Conflict
  8. CHAPTER 2 - The Impact of Institutions and Norms in International Crises
  9. CHAPTER 3 - International Disputes and the Evolution of Conflict
  10. CHAPTER 4 - Institutional Constraint Versus Regime Type
  11. CHAPTER 5 - Political Norms Versus Institutional Structures
  12. CHAPTER 6 - Democratization and International Conflict
  13. CHAPTER 7 - The Evolution of Conflicts, Institutions, and Norms: An Agent-Based Simulation
  14. CHAPTER 8 - Conclusions
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index