Democratic Peace

A Political Biography

Bibliographic Data

ID19922930
AuthorsPiki Ish-Shalom (0000-0002-7328-955X, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages280
Publication date2013-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDemocratic Peace: A Political Biography (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Michigan Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3998/mpub.5558805
OpenAlexW4250540310
Open LibraryOL26793940M
ISBN9780472118762
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDE6vCb7hZmNcC
LanguageEN
Citations received26

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

Democracy · Foreign policy · Law and economics · Peace and conflict studies · Peace movement · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Shalom · Sociology · Theology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · War, Ethics, and Justification · Peace

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