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Democratic Peace: A Political Biography
University of Michigan Press, 2015 eISBN: 978-0-472-02915-0 | Cloth: 978-0-472-11876-2 | Paper: 978-0-472-03629-5 Library of Congress Classification JC423.I84 2013 Dewey Decimal Classification 303.66
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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. Political theorist Piki Ish-Shalom 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, Ish-Shalom boldly confronts the question of how much responsibility theoreticians must bear for the political uses—and misuses—of their ideas. See other books on: Democracy | History & Theory | Ish-Shalom, Piki | Peace | Political Biography See other titles from University of Michigan Press |
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Democratic Peace: A Political Biography
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University of Michigan Press, 2015
eISBN: 978-0-472-02915-0
Cloth: 978-0-472-11876-2
Paper: 978-0-472-03629-5
eISBN: 978-0-472-02915-0
Cloth: 978-0-472-11876-2
Paper: 978-0-472-03629-5
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.
Political theorist Piki Ish-Shalom 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, Ish-Shalom boldly confronts the question of how much responsibility theoreticians must bear for the political uses—and misuses—of their ideas.
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