Since the democratic peace was 'rediscovered'in the 1970s, the phenomenon has become a
mainstream research agenda. Significant attention and page space has been dedicated to …

It is widely accepted that democracies are less conflict prone, if only with other democracies.
Debate persists, however, about the causes underlying liberal peace. This article offers a …

This is the first historically comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the causes, content, and
consequences of nationalism in China, an ancient empire that has struggled to construct a …

This book is the first to provide an in-depth understanding of the 2014 crisis, Russia's
annexation of Crimea and Europe's de facto war between Russia and Ukraine. The book …

This book presents a systematic reassessment of the theoretical and empirical foundations
of the democratic peace literature. Three distinct theoretical models of how domestic political …

Reviewing 40 years of hard, empirical data, from China and India to Chile and Iraq, the
authors show that poor democracies beat poor autocracies in every economic measure. In …

We examine the relationship between the temporal and spatial aspects of democratic
diffusion in the world system since 1946. We find strong and consistent evidence of temporal …

In this article I explore the propensity of democracies to use military force when involved in
international disputes. I argue that the use of force by democracies in large part results from …

This book focuses on Kant's analysis of three issues crucial for contemporary politics.
Starting from a new reading of Kant's account of our innate right to freedom, it highlights how …

The concept of identity seems to be all the rage now in the social sciences. A critical focus
of" processoriented" scholarship concerns why and how the social groups to which we …