Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Independence, & International Organizations(三局分立的和平)

Book Description
Does democracy reduce conflict? Triangulating Peace tackles today's most provocative hypothesis in the field of international relations: the democratic peace proposition. Drawing on ideas originally put forth by Immanuel Kant, the authors argue that democracy, economic interdependence, and international mediation can sucessfully cooperate to significantly reduce the chances of war.

Preface 9
1 International Systems: Vicious Circles and Virtuous Circles 15
The Modern State System 16
Anarchy as a Potentially Vicious Circle 22
The Creation of Virtuous Circles 24
Background and Legacy of the European Achievement 29
A Complex System of Interactions Supporting Peace 33
The Kantian Triangle 35
2 From Democratic Peace to Kantian Peace 43
Democracy as the Focus 44
Two Dimensions: Pairs of States and Individual States 47
Theories of the Dyadic Democratic Peace: Culture or Structure? 53
The Convergence and Expansion of Theories 58
Common Interests 59
Interventions 62
Conflict Management 64
Why Do Democracies Win the Wars They Fight? 66
The Domestic Conflict-Foreign Conflict Puzzle 68
Civil Wars 70
Beyond the "Democratic" Peace 71
Democracy and Political Integration 74
Legitimacy, Liberalism, and Society 76
3 Democracy Reduces Conflict 81
The Epidemiology of War and Peace 82
What Causes or Constrains States' Use of Force? 85
A Database for Epidemiological Studies of Interstate Conflict 91
Militarized Disputes 94
Influences and Constraints: Democracy 97
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