Contents
- Chapter 1: Vicious Circles and Virtuous Circles
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- The modern state system
- Anarchy as a potentially vicious circle
- The creation of virtuous circles
- Background and legacy of the European achievement
- A complex system of interactions supporting peace
- The Kantian Triangle
- Chapter 2: From Democratic Peace to Kantian Peace Democracy as the focus
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- Two dimensions: pairs of states and individual states
- Theories of the dyadic democratic peace: culture or structure?
- The convergence and expansion of theories
- Common interests
- Interventions
- Conflict management
- Why do democracies win the wars they fight?
- The domestic conflict/foreign conflict puzzle
- Civil wars
- Beyond the "democratic" peace
- Democracy and political integration Legitimacy, liberalism, and society
- Chapter 3: Democracy Reduces Conflict
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- The epidemiology of war and peace
- What causes militarized disputes? A data base for epidemiological studies of interstate conflict
- Militarized disputes
- Influences and constraints: democracy,br> Realist constraints
- Analyzing the global experience of a century
- Was the effect of democracy different in different periods?
- Peaceful autocracies?
- Are political transitions dangerous?
- More democracy and more peace
- Chapter 4: Both Democracy and Economic Interdependence Reduce Conflict
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- The liberal peace: classical perspectives and recent research
- Analytical problems
- Testing the effects of trade
- Trade does reduce conflict
- Are open economies more pacific?
- Economic growth and conflict
- Economic interdependence and peace
- Chapter 5: International Organizations also Reduce Conflict
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- Networks of intergovernmental organizations
- Why and how IGOs might matter
- Indirect effects and reverse causality
- The analysis of dense networks
- International organizations also reduce disputes
- World War I as an example Systemic changes over time
- Or is it hegemony that reduces violence?
- Coercion or persuasion?
- The three Kantian legs
- Chapter 6: Virtuous Circles and Indirect Influences
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- Two questions we can’t settle here
- United Nations peace-building through democracy?
- The effort in Mozambique
- Do IGOs promote peace, or vice versa?
- Who trades with whom?
- Interests, preferences, and alliances
- Chapter 7: Clash of Civilizations or Realism and Liberalism Déjà Vu?
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- Civilizations and identity
- Exploring the effects of civilizational differences
- A simple test
- Civilizational, realist, and liberal influences on conflict
- What are the patterns of conflict within and between particular civilizations?
- Do regional hegemonies reduce the likelihood of conflict?
- Does the clash of civilizations grow over time?
- Are civilizations the prime mover?
- The insignificance of civilizational differences
- Chapter 8: The Kantian Peace in the Twenty-First Century
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- The Evidence for a Kantian Peace
- Incorporating Russia and China into the Kantian system
- Russia’s options
- How to avoid the dangers of a Russia-China alliance
- Why not bring Russia into NATO?
- How would the Chinese react?
- The false hope of hegemony
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