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Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace
Charles Lipson
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Description for Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace
Paperback. Why do democracies avoid fighting each other? This book examines research and speculation on the subject and tests this against the history of relations between democracies over two centuries. It concludes that constitutional democracies have a 'contracting advantage' - a unique ability to settle conflicts with each other by durable agreements. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
Democracies often go to war but almost never against each other. Indeed, "the democratic peace" has become a catchphrase among scholars and even U.S. Presidents. But why do democracies avoid fighting each other? Reliable Partners offers the first systematic and definitive explanation. Examining decades of research and speculation on the subject and testing this against the history of relations between democracies over the last two centuries, Charles Lipson concludes that constitutional democracies have a "contracting advantage"--a unique ability to settle conflicts with each other by durable agreements. In so doing he forcefully counters realist claims that a regime's character is ... Read more
Democracies often go to war but almost never against each other. Indeed, "the democratic peace" has become a catchphrase among scholars and even U.S. Presidents. But why do democracies avoid fighting each other? Reliable Partners offers the first systematic and definitive explanation. Examining decades of research and speculation on the subject and testing this against the history of relations between democracies over the last two centuries, Charles Lipson concludes that constitutional democracies have a "contracting advantage"--a unique ability to settle conflicts with each other by durable agreements. In so doing he forcefully counters realist claims that a regime's character is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691122779
SKU
V9780691122779
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About Charles Lipson
Charles Lipson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he founded and codirects PIPES, the Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security. He is the author of "Standing Guard: Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries".
Reviews for Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace
"[I]mportant and engagingly written... If you want a book that takes theory seriously yet will engage students on fundamental aspects of international politics, this is one on a short shelf."
Bruce Russett, Perspectives on Politics
Bruce Russett, Perspectives on Politics