Mark Peceny
Biographic Data
| ID | 287510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Peceny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Peceny |
| SIGNATURE | PECENY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 330 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of U.S. Military Bases in World War II Latin America
Winning with warlords in Afghanistan
A fundamental contradiction has been built into America's intervention in Afghanistan since the first days of the war in 2001. On the one hand, US policymakers have viewed the promotion of liberal democracy, economic development, and strong centralized state institutions as essential to achieve victory over the long term. On the other hand, however, the US has relied on local warlords to win its battles against the Taliban from the first days of …
Counterinsurgency in El Salvador
Contemporary U.S. policy makers often characterize the U.S. counterinsurgency experience in El Salvador as a successful model to be followed in other contexts. This article argues that these characterizations significantly overstate the positive lessons of El Salvador, and ignore important cautionary implications. During the first part of the conflict, neither the Armed Forces of El Salvador (FAES) nor the U.S. followed the tenets of counterinsur…
Venezuela and the Collective Defence of Democracy Regime in the Americas
Venezuela has been racked by several years of intense political conflict marked by frequent, massive demonstrations, crippling national strikes and an attempted military coup. Perhaps surprisingly, Venezuelan democracy has been sustained in the face of these challenges and conflicts between supporters and opponents of President Hugo Chávez are increasingly played out through constitutional democratic means. The Organization of American States' (O…
Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions
Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions. By John Foran. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 410p. $75.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. John Foran's book draws faithfully from the rich literature on revolutions from the 1970s and beyond and extends this work in useful ways. It presents a well-crafted synthetic argument that finds a nice balance between international and domestic sources of revolution and between structural constrain…
Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America (review)
The Farc's Best Friend: U.S. Antidrug Policies and the Deepening of Columbia's Civil War in the 1990s
The strengthening of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) during the 1990s was an unintended consequence of a series of tactical successes in U.S. antidrug policies. These included dismantling the Medellín and Cali drug cartels, interdicting coca coming into Colombian processing facilities, and using drug certification requirements to pressure the Colombian government to attack drug cartels and allow aerial fumigation of coca crops. …
The Farc's Best Friend: U.S. Antidrug Policies and the Deepening of Colombia's Civil War in the 1990s
The strengthening of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) during the 1990s was an unintended consequence of a series of tactical successes in U.S. antidrug policies. These included dismantling the Medellín and Cali drug cartels, interdicting coca coming into Colombian processing facilities, and using drug certification requirements to pressure the Colombian government to attack drug cartels and allow aerial fumigation of coca crops. …
Forging Democracy at Gunpoint
Can liberal interventionism build liberal democracy? This manuscript examines the military interventions undertaken by the U.S., U.K., France, and the UN in the post-World War II era to see if they had a positive impact on democracy in target countries. Empirical analysis centers on multivariate time series, cross section PCSE and relogit regressions of political liberalization and democratization from 1946 to 1996. The former is operationalized …
The Conflict Behavior of Authoritarian Regimes
Peaceful Parties and Puzzling Personalists
Reiter and Stam advance the study of the conflict behavior of authoritarian regimes in two ways. First, they clearly demonstrate the importance of using directed dyad data sets for studying mixed pairs of political regimes. Second, they have refocused our attention on the question of decisional constraints and international conflict. This response examines the dispute patterns of a specific mixed pair of authoritarian regimes, single-party regime…
Book Notes
Kantian Liberalism and the Collective Defense of Democracy in Latin America
This article highlights a systemic aspect of the liberal peace that has been underemphasized by the existing literature. It argues that the liberal peace is constructed in part by the active efforts of a variety of liberal states and international organizations to promote democracy within states. This article examines the collective defense of democracy regime in the Americas to illustrate this political dynamic and applies Immanuel Kant's origin…
Dictatorial Peace
Is there a dictatorial peace that resembles the democratic peace? This paper uses a new data set compiled by Barbara Geddes to examine the conflict behavior of three types of autocratic regimes-personalist, military, and single-party dictatorships-in the post-World War II era. We find some evidence that specific types of authoritarian regimes are peaceful toward one another. No two personalist dictators or two military regimes have gone to war wi…
Civil Wars and Foreign Powers: Outside Intervention in Intrastate Conflict . Patrick M. Regan
Democracy at the Point of Bayonets
Journal Article Democracy at the Point of Bayonets. By Mark Peceny. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xiv, 254 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-271-01882-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-271-01883-6.) Get access Eric Paul Roorda Eric Paul Roorda Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 722–723…
Liberal Social Reconstruction and the Resolution of Civil Wars in Central America
The international community, in its efforts to overcome the security dilemmas that inhibit conflict resolution, need not always offer forceful security guarantees to combatants in civil wars. We argue that noncoercive, liberal international intervention can end civil wars. As suggested by a constructivist perspective and the insights of the democratic peace, the promotion of liberal democracy can successfully resolve civil wars by transforming th…
Democracy at the Point of Bayonets
No country has worked harder to coerce others to adopt liberal institutions than the United States. This book examines the promotion of democracy during U.S. military interventions in the twentieth century, showing it to be one of the central ways in which the United States attempts to reconcile the potential contradictions involved in being a liberal great power. Examining interventions from the Spanish-American War through recent actions in Bos…
The Social Construction of Democracy
Books reviewed in this article: Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies, Larry Diamond: Themes and Perspectives, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-han Chu, and Hung-mao Tien,eds. Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Regional Challenges, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-han Chu, and Hung-mao Tien, eds. Democracy's Victory and Crisis, Axel Hadenius, ed
Forcing Them to Be Free
Forcing Them To Be Free
Is it possible to force other states to be free by imposing democracy on them during military interventions? This article analyzes the histori cal relationship between U.S. military intervention and the democratiza tion of target states from 1898-1992 using the Polity III data set to meas ure democracy It argues that U.S. military intervention in and of itself does not have a positive impact on democracy Active support for “free and fair” electio…
A Constructivist Interpretation of the Liberal Peace: The Ambiguous Case of the Spanish-American War
This article uses the Spanish-American War, one of the only possible cases of war between democracies, to demonstrate the power of a constructivist approach for explaining the liberal peace. A `structural idealist' argument suggests that the liberal peace must be conceived of as an `intersubjective consensus' of the leaders and citizens of liberal states. A Gramscian perspective interprets the liberal pacific union as an effort by the United Stat…
Two Paths to the Promotion of Democracy during U.S. Military Interventions
This article argues that presidents adopt "pro-liberalization policies" during military interventions for one of two reasons. Presidents' initial choices are most affected by the security conditions in the broad international environment and within the country in question. If presidents initially adopt "non-liberalization" policies, however, liberal internationalist attacks from Congress can often compel presidents to shift to pro-liberalization …
"The Inter-American System as a Liberal "Pacific Union
lead to greater cooperation and peace, to a
Adventures in Chaos: American Intervention for Reform in the Third World. Douglas J. Macdonald
Dictatorial Peace
Is there a dictatorial peace that resembles the democratic peace? This paper uses a new data set compiled by Barbara Geddes to examine the conflict behavior of three types of autocratic regimes-personalist, military, and single-party dictatorships-in the post-World War II era. We find some evidence that specific types of authoritarian regimes are peaceful toward one another. No two personalist dictators or two military regimes have gone to war wi…
Forging Democracy at Gunpoint
Can liberal interventionism build liberal democracy? This manuscript examines the military interventions undertaken by the U.S., U.K., France, and the UN in the post-World War II era to see if they had a positive impact on democracy in target countries. Empirical analysis centers on multivariate time series, cross section PCSE and relogit regressions of political liberalization and democratization from 1946 to 1996. The former is operationalized …
Forcing Them To Be Free
Is it possible to force other states to be free by imposing democracy on them during military interventions? This article analyzes the histori cal relationship between U.S. military intervention and the democratiza tion of target states from 1898-1992 using the Polity III data set to meas ure democracy It argues that U.S. military intervention in and of itself does not have a positive impact on democracy Active support for “free and fair” electio…
Liberal Social Reconstruction and the Resolution of Civil Wars in Central America
The international community, in its efforts to overcome the security dilemmas that inhibit conflict resolution, need not always offer forceful security guarantees to combatants in civil wars. We argue that noncoercive, liberal international intervention can end civil wars. As suggested by a constructivist perspective and the insights of the democratic peace, the promotion of liberal democracy can successfully resolve civil wars by transforming th…
The Conflict Behavior of Authoritarian Regimes
Peaceful Parties and Puzzling Personalists
Reiter and Stam advance the study of the conflict behavior of authoritarian regimes in two ways. First, they clearly demonstrate the importance of using directed dyad data sets for studying mixed pairs of political regimes. Second, they have refocused our attention on the question of decisional constraints and international conflict. This response examines the dispute patterns of a specific mixed pair of authoritarian regimes, single-party regime…
Two Paths to the Promotion of Democracy during U.S. Military Interventions
This article argues that presidents adopt "pro-liberalization policies" during military interventions for one of two reasons. Presidents' initial choices are most affected by the security conditions in the broad international environment and within the country in question. If presidents initially adopt "non-liberalization" policies, however, liberal internationalist attacks from Congress can often compel presidents to shift to pro-liberalization …
Counterinsurgency in El Salvador
Contemporary U.S. policy makers often characterize the U.S. counterinsurgency experience in El Salvador as a successful model to be followed in other contexts. This article argues that these characterizations significantly overstate the positive lessons of El Salvador, and ignore important cautionary implications. During the first part of the conflict, neither the Armed Forces of El Salvador (FAES) nor the U.S. followed the tenets of counterinsur…
A Constructivist Interpretation of the Liberal Peace: The Ambiguous Case of the Spanish-American War
This article uses the Spanish-American War, one of the only possible cases of war between democracies, to demonstrate the power of a constructivist approach for explaining the liberal peace. A `structural idealist' argument suggests that the liberal peace must be conceived of as an `intersubjective consensus' of the leaders and citizens of liberal states. A Gramscian perspective interprets the liberal pacific union as an effort by the United Stat…
Kantian Liberalism and the Collective Defense of Democracy in Latin America
This article highlights a systemic aspect of the liberal peace that has been underemphasized by the existing literature. It argues that the liberal peace is constructed in part by the active efforts of a variety of liberal states and international organizations to promote democracy within states. This article examines the collective defense of democracy regime in the Americas to illustrate this political dynamic and applies Immanuel Kant's origin…
Venezuela and the Collective Defence of Democracy Regime in the Americas
Venezuela has been racked by several years of intense political conflict marked by frequent, massive demonstrations, crippling national strikes and an attempted military coup. Perhaps surprisingly, Venezuelan democracy has been sustained in the face of these challenges and conflicts between supporters and opponents of President Hugo Chávez are increasingly played out through constitutional democratic means. The Organization of American States' (O…
Winning with warlords in Afghanistan
A fundamental contradiction has been built into America's intervention in Afghanistan since the first days of the war in 2001. On the one hand, US policymakers have viewed the promotion of liberal democracy, economic development, and strong centralized state institutions as essential to achieve victory over the long term. On the other hand, however, the US has relied on local warlords to win its battles against the Taliban from the first days of …
Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of U.S. Military Bases in World War II Latin America
Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions
Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions. By John Foran. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 410p. $75.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. John Foran's book draws faithfully from the rich literature on revolutions from the 1970s and beyond and extends this work in useful ways. It presents a well-crafted synthetic argument that finds a nice balance between international and domestic sources of revolution and between structural constrain…
The Farc's Best Friend: U.S. Antidrug Policies and the Deepening of Columbia's Civil War in the 1990s
The strengthening of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) during the 1990s was an unintended consequence of a series of tactical successes in U.S. antidrug policies. These included dismantling the Medellín and Cali drug cartels, interdicting coca coming into Colombian processing facilities, and using drug certification requirements to pressure the Colombian government to attack drug cartels and allow aerial fumigation of coca crops. …
The Social Construction of Democracy
Books reviewed in this article: Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies, Larry Diamond: Themes and Perspectives, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-han Chu, and Hung-mao Tien,eds. Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Regional Challenges, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-han Chu, and Hung-mao Tien, eds. Democracy's Victory and Crisis, Axel Hadenius, ed
"The Inter-American System as a Liberal "Pacific Union
lead to greater cooperation and peace, to a
Adventures in Chaos: American Intervention for Reform in the Third World. Douglas J. Macdonald
"The Inter-American System as a Liberal "Pacific Union
lead to greater cooperation and peace, to a
Two Paths to the Promotion of Democracy during U.S. Military Interventions
This article argues that presidents adopt "pro-liberalization policies" during military interventions for one of two reasons. Presidents' initial choices are most affected by the security conditions in the broad international environment and within the country in question. If presidents initially adopt "non-liberalization" policies, however, liberal internationalist attacks from Congress can often compel presidents to shift to pro-liberalization …
A Constructivist Interpretation of the Liberal Peace: The Ambiguous Case of the Spanish-American War
This article uses the Spanish-American War, one of the only possible cases of war between democracies, to demonstrate the power of a constructivist approach for explaining the liberal peace. A `structural idealist' argument suggests that the liberal peace must be conceived of as an `intersubjective consensus' of the leaders and citizens of liberal states. A Gramscian perspective interprets the liberal pacific union as an effort by the United Stat…
Democracy at the Point of Bayonets
No country has worked harder to coerce others to adopt liberal institutions than the United States. This book examines the promotion of democracy during U.S. military interventions in the twentieth century, showing it to be one of the central ways in which the United States attempts to reconcile the potential contradictions involved in being a liberal great power. Examining interventions from the Spanish-American War through recent actions in Bos…
The Social Construction of Democracy
Books reviewed in this article: Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies, Larry Diamond: Themes and Perspectives, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-han Chu, and Hung-mao Tien,eds. Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Regional Challenges, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-han Chu, and Hung-mao Tien, eds. Democracy's Victory and Crisis, Axel Hadenius, ed
Forcing Them to Be Free
Forcing Them To Be Free
Is it possible to force other states to be free by imposing democracy on them during military interventions? This article analyzes the histori cal relationship between U.S. military intervention and the democratiza tion of target states from 1898-1992 using the Polity III data set to meas ure democracy It argues that U.S. military intervention in and of itself does not have a positive impact on democracy Active support for “free and fair” electio…
Civil Wars and Foreign Powers: Outside Intervention in Intrastate Conflict . Patrick M. Regan
Democracy at the Point of Bayonets
Journal Article Democracy at the Point of Bayonets. By Mark Peceny. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xiv, 254 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-271-01882-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-271-01883-6.) Get access Eric Paul Roorda Eric Paul Roorda Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 722–723…
Liberal Social Reconstruction and the Resolution of Civil Wars in Central America
The international community, in its efforts to overcome the security dilemmas that inhibit conflict resolution, need not always offer forceful security guarantees to combatants in civil wars. We argue that noncoercive, liberal international intervention can end civil wars. As suggested by a constructivist perspective and the insights of the democratic peace, the promotion of liberal democracy can successfully resolve civil wars by transforming th…
Book Notes
Kantian Liberalism and the Collective Defense of Democracy in Latin America
This article highlights a systemic aspect of the liberal peace that has been underemphasized by the existing literature. It argues that the liberal peace is constructed in part by the active efforts of a variety of liberal states and international organizations to promote democracy within states. This article examines the collective defense of democracy regime in the Americas to illustrate this political dynamic and applies Immanuel Kant's origin…
Dictatorial Peace
Is there a dictatorial peace that resembles the democratic peace? This paper uses a new data set compiled by Barbara Geddes to examine the conflict behavior of three types of autocratic regimes-personalist, military, and single-party dictatorships-in the post-World War II era. We find some evidence that specific types of authoritarian regimes are peaceful toward one another. No two personalist dictators or two military regimes have gone to war wi…
Peaceful Parties and Puzzling Personalists
Reiter and Stam advance the study of the conflict behavior of authoritarian regimes in two ways. First, they clearly demonstrate the importance of using directed dyad data sets for studying mixed pairs of political regimes. Second, they have refocused our attention on the question of decisional constraints and international conflict. This response examines the dispute patterns of a specific mixed pair of authoritarian regimes, single-party regime…
The Conflict Behavior of Authoritarian Regimes
Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America (review)
The Farc's Best Friend: U.S. Antidrug Policies and the Deepening of Columbia's Civil War in the 1990s
The strengthening of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) during the 1990s was an unintended consequence of a series of tactical successes in U.S. antidrug policies. These included dismantling the Medellín and Cali drug cartels, interdicting coca coming into Colombian processing facilities, and using drug certification requirements to pressure the Colombian government to attack drug cartels and allow aerial fumigation of coca crops. …
The Farc's Best Friend: U.S. Antidrug Policies and the Deepening of Colombia's Civil War in the 1990s
The strengthening of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) during the 1990s was an unintended consequence of a series of tactical successes in U.S. antidrug policies. These included dismantling the Medellín and Cali drug cartels, interdicting coca coming into Colombian processing facilities, and using drug certification requirements to pressure the Colombian government to attack drug cartels and allow aerial fumigation of coca crops. …
Forging Democracy at Gunpoint
Can liberal interventionism build liberal democracy? This manuscript examines the military interventions undertaken by the U.S., U.K., France, and the UN in the post-World War II era to see if they had a positive impact on democracy in target countries. Empirical analysis centers on multivariate time series, cross section PCSE and relogit regressions of political liberalization and democratization from 1946 to 1996. The former is operationalized …
Venezuela and the Collective Defence of Democracy Regime in the Americas
Venezuela has been racked by several years of intense political conflict marked by frequent, massive demonstrations, crippling national strikes and an attempted military coup. Perhaps surprisingly, Venezuelan democracy has been sustained in the face of these challenges and conflicts between supporters and opponents of President Hugo Chávez are increasingly played out through constitutional democratic means. The Organization of American States' (O…
Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions
Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions. By John Foran. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 410p. $75.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. John Foran's book draws faithfully from the rich literature on revolutions from the 1970s and beyond and extends this work in useful ways. It presents a well-crafted synthetic argument that finds a nice balance between international and domestic sources of revolution and between structural constrain…
Counterinsurgency in El Salvador
Contemporary U.S. policy makers often characterize the U.S. counterinsurgency experience in El Salvador as a successful model to be followed in other contexts. This article argues that these characterizations significantly overstate the positive lessons of El Salvador, and ignore important cautionary implications. During the first part of the conflict, neither the Armed Forces of El Salvador (FAES) nor the U.S. followed the tenets of counterinsur…
Winning with warlords in Afghanistan
A fundamental contradiction has been built into America's intervention in Afghanistan since the first days of the war in 2001. On the one hand, US policymakers have viewed the promotion of liberal democracy, economic development, and strong centralized state institutions as essential to achieve victory over the long term. On the other hand, however, the US has relied on local warlords to win its battles against the Taliban from the first days of …
Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of U.S. Military Bases in World War II Latin America
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