Piecing together the peaces : the agricultural-industrial transition and the rise of zones of peace

Piecing together the peaces : the agricultural-industrial transition and the rise of zones of peace / Alexander K. Antony, William R. Thompson.

"The purpose of an introduction is to tell the reader what a book is and is not about. This book has three goals. One is to modify an interpretation of economic and political development constructed by North, Wallis, and Weingast (2009) that focuses on the emergence of limited and open access s...

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Main Authors: Antony, Alexander K. (Author), Thompson, William R. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Peace > Economic aspects.
International relations > Economic aspects.
Industrialization > Political aspects.
Politics & government.
Politics and Government.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction: Peace and Transition
  • Questions of War and Peace
  • The Elephant in the Room
  • Plan of Attack
  • Contribution
  • Part I Arguments and Assumptions
  • 2 Warring Peaces
  • Peace Explanations
  • Synthesis
  • Synthesizing Peace Processes and Related Findings
  • 3 The Main Contenders: Democratic, Interdependence, Capitalist, and Territorial Peaces
  • The Democratic Peace
  • Economic Interdependence and the "Capitalist" Peace
  • More Capitalist Peaces
  • The Territorial Peace
  • The Centrality of Territorial Conflict
  • Waning of Territorial Conflict
  • 4 Out of the Agrarian Era and Into the Industrialization Era
  • The North, Wallis, and Weingast Argument: A General Explanation
  • Further Internationalization of the NWW Argument
  • Back to the Big Picture
  • Industrialization and Conflict Patterns
  • Utility of Conquest for Agrarian States
  • Utility of Conquest for Industrial States
  • Links Among Industrialization and Alternate Peace Factors
  • Industrialization and Democracy
  • Industrialization, Economic Interdependence, and Capitalism
  • Industrialization, Border Settlement, and Territorial Claims
  • 5 Measurement Issues
  • Industrialization
  • Democracy
  • Trade Openness and Capitalism
  • Border Settlement
  • Additional Control Variables
  • 6 A Dyadic Perspective
  • Iteration 1: Confronting Four Different Interpretations Empirically
  • Findings
  • Iteration 2: Variations On the Capitalist Peace
  • Conclusion
  • Part II Analyses
  • 7 Zones of Peace and Neighborhood Diffusion
  • Incorporating the Local Environment
  • Conceptualizing Zones of Peace
  • Spatial Diffusion of Peace Factors
  • Industrialization and Zones of Peace
  • The Local Environment, Network Effects, and the Rise of Zones of Peace
  • A Framework for Integrating Peace Explanations
  • 8 More Measurement Issues for Diffusion, Zones of Peace, and Network Effects
  • Unit of Analysis and Measuring a "Zone"
  • Zones of Peace
  • Creating Neighborhood Attributes
  • Illustrative Cases
  • Nordic States
  • Southern Cone of Latin America
  • Southeast Asia
  • East Africa
  • 9 Co-Evolution and Spatial Diffusion
  • Examining the Temporal Interdependence of Peace Factors
  • Examining the Spatial Interdependence of Peace Factors
  • 10 Zones of Peace
  • Peace Transitions
  • Empirical Examination Using Multi-State Survival Models
  • MSM Results
  • 11 Network Effects
  • A Networked Approach to Rivalry and Positive Peace
  • Network Methodology
  • TERGM Results
  • Summary
  • Part III Zones of Peace
  • 12 The Transition From the Agricultural Era to the Industrialization Era
  • Appendix List of Industrialized States and Year Reached 70%/85% Thresholds

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