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1 online resource |
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data file |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""A Note to the Reader ""; ""Introduction ""; ""1. Theory as a Hermeneutical Mechanism: A Theoretical Model ""; ""2. Democratic Peace as Theoretical Constructions ""; ""3. Democratic Peace as a Public Convention ""; ""4. Word-Lords: The Israeli Right's Mobilization of the Rhetorical Capital of Democratic Peace ""; ""5. The Civilization of Clashes: The Neoconservative Reading of Democratic Peace ""; ""6. The Three Free World Theories ""; ""7. Theorizing and Responsibility ""; ""Conclusions: Zooming In, Zooming Out ""; ""Notes ""; ""References ""; ""Index "" |
| Summary |
The Democratic Peace Thesis holds that democracies rarely make war on other democracies. Political scientists have advanced numerous theories attempting to identify precisely which elements of democracy promote this mutual peace, often hoping that Democratic Peace could be the final and ultimate antidote to war. However, as the theories were taken up by political figures, the immediate outcomes were war and the perpetuation of hostilities. The author, a political theorist, sketches the origins and early academic development of the Democratic Peace Thesis. He then focuses on the ways in which various Democratic Peace Theories were used by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both to shape and to justify U.S. foreign policy, particularly the U.S. stance on the Israeli-Palestinian situation and the War in Iraq. In the conclusion, the author confronts the question of how much responsibility theoreticians must bear for the political uses - and misuses - of their ideas. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Democracy.
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Democracy. |
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Peace.
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Peace. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Democratic peace Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013] 9780472118762 (cloth : acid-free paper) (DLC) 2012047394 |
| ISBN |
9780472029150 (e-book) |
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0472029150 |
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9780472118762 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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1299782396 (electronic book) |
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9781299782396 (electronic book) |
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0472118765 |
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9780472118762 |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.5558805 |
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