Electing to fight: why emerging democracies go to war / by Edward D Mansfield and Jack Snyder

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: BCSIA Studies in International SecurityPublication details: Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004Description: 300 pISBN:
  • 0262134497 (hbk.):
Subject(s): Summary: The United States promotes the spread of democracy not only because it is intrinsically good but because, it is said, democracies rarely fight each other. Based on extensive research this book suggests that in fact in the early phases of transition to democracy states are more likely to become involved in war. Those with weak political institutions are particularly prone to invoke external threats and resort to belligerent nationalistic rhetoric. On this basis the authors argue that more effort and attention should be given to developing the institutions that democracy needs to function effectively, and only then should full political participation and elections take place.
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The United States promotes the spread of democracy not only because it is intrinsically good but because, it is said, democracies rarely fight each other. Based on extensive research this book suggests that in fact in the early phases of transition to democracy states are more likely to become involved in war. Those with weak political institutions are particularly prone to invoke external threats and resort to belligerent nationalistic rhetoric. On this basis the authors argue that more effort and attention should be given to developing the institutions that democracy needs to function effectively, and only then should full political participation and elections take place.

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