Buch(elektronisch)2013

Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace

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Democracies often go to war but almost never against each other. Indeed, ""the democratic peace"" has become a catchphrase among scholars and even U.S. Presidents. But why do democracies avoid fighting each other? Reliable Partners offers the first systematic and definitive explanation. Examining decades of research and speculation on the subject and testing this against the history of relations between democracies over the last two centuries, Charles Lipson concludes that constitutional democracies have a ""contracting advantage""--a unique ability to settle conflicts with each other by dura

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Reliable partners: how democracies have made a separate peace

Lipson, Charles

The argument in a nutshell -- Is there really peace among democracies? -- A contracting theory of the democratic peace and its alternatives -- Why democratic bargains are reliable : constitutions, open politics, and the electorate -- Leadership succession as a cause of war : the structural advantage of democracies -- Extending the argument : implications of secure contracting among constitutional democracies -- Conclusion: reliable partners and reliable peace