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Democracy and International Conflict

Democracy and International Conflict

Ray, James Lee
Puchala, Donald James
Kegley, Charles W., Jr.

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Series: Studies in International Relations

General Political ScienceGeneral World HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1570032416
ISBN13: 9781570032417
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: Jun 24 2009
Pages: 243
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
In Democracy and International Conflict, James Lee Ray defends the idea, so optimistically advanced by diplomats in the wake of the Soviet Union's demise and so hotly debated by international relations scholars, that democratic states do not initiate war against one another and therefore offer an avenue to universal peace. Ray acknowledges that despite persuasive theoretical arguments and empirical evidence in favor of this idea, the democratic peace proposition is susceptible to attack on three points: the statistical rarity of both international wars and democracies; the difficulty in defining democracy; and the vulnerability of democratic regimes. To confront these criticisms, Ray offers a systematic analysis of regime transitions and a workable definition of democracy as well as careful scrutiny of cases in which democracies averted international conflict.

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