Justin, you haven't been reading this conservative have you ;-)
With a new preface by the author
Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World Bruce Russett
Paper | 1994 | $19.95 / £12.95 | ISBN: 0-691-00164-2 184 pp. | 6 x 9 | 10 tables
e-Book | 2001 | $9.95 (Microsoft Reader format) | ISBN: 1-4008-0692-5 e-Book | 2001 | $9.95 (Adobe Reader format) | ISBN: 1-4008-0694-1
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By illuminating the conflict-resolving mechanisms inherent in the relationships between democracies, Bruce Russett explains one of the most promising developments of the modern international system: the striking fact that the democracies that it comprises have almost never fought each other.
Reviews:
"Russett finds this [the proposition that democracies do not fight each other] to be an extraordinarily robust conclusion.... [The book] presents a challenge to realists while providing a rigorous undergirding to what has become a widespread view."--Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs
"The ambition and scope of the study provides the illuminating and unexpected insights into the relationships between war and democracy."--Roland Dannreuther, Survival
"The descriptive phase of scholarly research on the absence of war between democratic dyads has been largely completed, and attention is now shifting to alternative explanations for this well-confirmed empirical generalization. The best place to begin, both for a summary of the descriptive evidence and for an attempt to explain it, is Bruce Russett's Grasping the Democratic Peace."--Jack S. Levy, International Studies Review
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