Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War

by Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder

Book Overview

Does the spread of democracy really contribute to international peace? Successive U.S. administrations have justified various policies intended to promote democracy not only by arguingthat democracy is intrinsically good but by pointing to a wide range of research concluding thatdemocracies rarely, if ever, go to war with one another. To promote democracy, the United States hasprovided economic assistance, political support, and technical advice to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262134497
• ISBN13: 9780262134491
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"