Electing to fight : why emerging democracies go to war

Electing to fight : why emerging democracies go to war / by Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder.

"To promote democracy, the United States has provided economic assistance, political support, and technical advice to emerging democracies in Eastern and Central Europe, and it has attempted to remove undemocratic regimes through political pressure, economic sanctions, and military force. In El...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mansfield, Edward D., 1962-
Other Authors: Snyder, Jack L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Series:BCSIA studies in international security.
Subjects:
Democratization.
War.
wars.
armed conflicts.
Democratization
War
Politischer Wandel
Demokratisierung
Krieg
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Table of Contents:
  • The perilous path to the democratic peace
  • Reconciling the democratic peace with accounts of democratization and war
  • Explaining turbulent transitions
  • Data and measures for testing the argument
  • Democratization and war: statistical findings
  • Democratizing dyads and the outbreak of war: statistical findings
  • Democratizing initiators of war: tracing causal processes
  • Tracing trajectories of democratization and war in the 1990s
  • Conclusion: Sequencing the transition for peace
  • Appendix: Democratizing countries that experienced the outbreak of external war, 1816-1992.

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