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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mansfield, Edward D., 1962-

Contributor:

Snyder, Jack L.

Series:

BCSIA studies in international security

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democratization.

War.

Physical Description:

x, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]

Summary:

A challenge to the view that the spread of democracy contributes to international peace.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Perilous Path to the Democratic Peace 1

Chapter 2 Reconciling the Democratic Peace with Accounts of Democratization and War 21

Chapter 3 Explaining Turbulent Transitions 39

Chapter 4 Data and Measures for Testing the Argument 69

Chapter 5 Democratization and War: Statistical Findings 95

Chapter 6 Democratizing Dyads and the Outbreak of War: Statistical Findings 139

Chapter 7 Democratizing Initiators of War: Tracing Causal Processes 169

Chapter 8 Tracing Trajectories of Democratization and War in the 1990s 229

Chapter 9 Conclusion: Sequencing the Transition for Peace 265

Appendix Democratizing Countries that Experienced the Outbreak of External War, 1816-1992 285.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0262134497

OCLC:

56191823