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Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War
by Mansfield, Edward D.; Snyder, Jack | PB | Good
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- Condition
- Good
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780262633475
- Publication Name
- Electing to Fight : Why Emerging Democracies Go to War
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Series
- Belfer Center Studies in International Security Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 16.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 316 Pages
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Does the spread of democracy really contribute to international peace? Successive U. S. administrations have justified various policies intended to promote democracy not only by arguing that democracy is intrinsically good but by pointing to a wide range of research concluding that democracies rarely, if ever, go to war with one another. To promote democracy, the United States has provided economic assistance, political support, and technical advice to emerging democracies in Eastern and Central Europe, and it has attempted to remove undemocratic regimes through political pressure, economic sanctions, and military force. In Electing to Fight , Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder challenge the widely accepted basis of these policies by arguing that states in the early phases of transitions to democracy are more likely than other states to become involved in war. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative analysis, Mansfield and Snyder show that emerging democracies with weak political institutions are especially likely to go to war. Leaders of these countries attempt to rally support by invoking external threats and resorting to belligerent, nationalist rhetoric. Mansfield and Snyder point to this pattern in cases ranging from revolutionary France to contemporary Russia. Because the risk of a state's being involved in violent conflict is high until democracy is fully consolidated, Mansfield and Snyder argue, the best way to promote democracy is to begin by building the institutions that democracy requires--such as the rule of law--and only then encouraging mass political participation and elections. Readers will find this argument particularly relevant to prevailing concerns about the transitional government in Iraq. Electing to Fight also calls into question the wisdom of urging early elections elsewhere in the Islamic world and in China.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262633477
ISBN-13
9780262633475
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57088159
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Electing to Fight : Why Emerging Democracies Go to War
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Series
Belfer Center Studies in International Security Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
316 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
16.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Age Range
18
Lc Classification Number
Jc423
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
" When, and how, does democratization increase the chances of war? No question is more important for domestic politics and international affairs in the twenty-first century. Mansfield and Snyder offer specific answers, combining statistical analyses with case studies to demonstrate the critical role played by domestic political institutions. The book provides the most comprehensive evidence on the topic to date. It is a must-read for anyone seriously interested in the theory and practice of democracy." --Cindy Skach, Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University, "Everyone agrees that democracies make peace not war. But is that true? Jack Snyder and Edward Mansfield have posed the question and answered it with great rigor and sophistication. The result is an important book that describes a far more complicated relationship between democratization and peace than simple-minded rhetoric would suggest." --Fareed Zakaria, Editor, "Newsweek International", "American foreign policy has been based on the premise that democracy promotes peace. Electing to Fightconclusively shows, however, that democratization, when mishandled, leads to war. Its challenge to the conventional beliefs of scholars and politicians makes it one of the most important books on international affairs in recent decades." -Samuel P. Huntington, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, Harvard University
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Security (National & International), Political Ideologies / Democracy
Dewey Decimal
321.8
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Political Science
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