New explorations into international relations : democracy, foreign investment, terrorism, and conflict / Seung-Whan Choi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choi, Seung-Whan, author.

Series:

Studies in security and international affairs.

Studies in security and international affairs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

World politics.

Democracy.

Investments, Foreign.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book addresses a range of issues surrounding the search for scientific truths in the study of international conflict and international political economy. Unlike empirical studies in other disciplines, says Seung-Whan Choi, many political studies seem more competent at presenting theoretical conjecture and hypotheses than they are at performing rigorous empirical analyses. When we study global issues like democratic institutions, flows of foreign direct investment, international terrorism, civil wars, and international conflict, we often uncritically adopt established theoretical framework

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Double Take; Chapter 1. Democracy, Ethnicity, Religion, and Civil War: Endogeneity Bias; Chapter 2. Capitalist Peace, Democratic Peace, and International War: Model Specification Errors; Chapter 3. A Reanalysis of the Selectorate Model: Fixed Effects, Heteroskedasticity, and Autocorrelation; Chapter 4. Examining the Predictability of the Selectorate Theory: Which Aspect of Democracy Explains Better, the Winning Coalition or Civil Liberties?; Chapter 5. Democracy, Foreign Direct Investment, and Outliers

Chapter 6. Explaining the Foreign Direct Investment- Democracy Controversy: Normality of Regression Residuals Chapter 7. Terrorism and Zero- Inflated Negative Binomial Regression: A Mismatch between Theory and Statistical Model; Chapter 8. Democracy and Transnational Terrorism Revisited: Rule of Law; Part II: Searching for New Ideas and Empirical Evidence; Chapter 9. Old Habits Die Hard: Leaders' Prior Military Experience, Repression, and Civil War; Chapter 10. Democracy, Status Quo, and Military Manpower Systems; Chapter 11. Selectorate Theory, Democracy, and Terrorism: Null Results

Chapter 12. The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment: Democracy, Economic Crisis, and Domestic Audience Benefits Chapter 13. The United States' Use of Military Force and Terrorism; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780820349060

0820349062

OCLC:

945566976