- 2001/237 pages
- Critical Security Studies
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Democracy, Liberalism, and War:
Rethinking the Democratic Peace Debates
Hardcover: $65.00
ISBN: 978-1-55587-955-6
The connection between liberalism and peace—and the reason why democratic countries appear not to go to war with each other—has become a dominant theme in international relations research. This book argues that scholars need to move beyond the "democratic peace debate" to ask more searching questions about the relationship of democracy, liberalism, and war.
The authors focus on the multiple and often contradictory ways in which liberalism, democracy, war, and peace interrelate. Acknowledging that a "zone of peace" exists, they concentrate on the particular historical and political contexts that make peace possible. This approach allows the redefinition of the democratic peace as a particular set of policies and claims to knowledge—a worldview that allows the continuation of violence against "nonliberal" others and the justification of extreme divisions of wealth and power in international society.
