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"This book challenges the way that the relationship of """"democracy"""", """"liberalism"""" and """"war"""" has been framed in terms of (outdated) assumptions about the state and the international system. The authors place these key concepts in historical and social context and interrogate the claim that liberal democratic states do not go to war with each other. Rejecting simple causal connections, they reveal instead the multiple and changing relations among systems of government, liberal ideology and the use of force. Their critique opens up new space for the analysis of the roles of democracy, liberalism and war in the making of the international system."

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Author:   Tarak Barkawi ,  Mark Laffey
Publisher:   Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
ISBN:  

9781555879556

ISBN 10:   1555879551
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   31 August 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction, T. Barkawi, M. Laffey; Realist spaces, liberal bellicosities - reading the democratic theory, D. Blaney; state identity and interstate practices - the limits to democratic peace in South Asia, H. Muppidi; the downside of democracy - the modern tradition of ethnic and political cleansing, M. Mann; how German is it? - military professionalism and the democratic peace, T.R.W. Kubik; war inside the free world - the US and the Cold War in the Third World, T. Barkawi; Warfare, Security and Democracy in East Asia, B. Cumings; democracy, peace - what's not to love?, M. Rupert; democracy and peace in the global revolution, M. Shaw; the international relations of democracy, liberalism and war directions for future research, R. Duvall, J. Weldes.

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