A Liberal Peace in Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3917674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin E Goldsmith (0000-0002-3247-3174, Discipline of Politics, University of Newcastle, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-27 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peace Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022343307072427 |
| OpenAlex | W2001538687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 44 |
Drawing on recent liberal peace and Asian security research, this article assesses the relevance of prominent 'Kantian' hypotheses for understanding the international politics of Asia. While there is some evidence that the dynamics of war and peace are different in Asia than in other parts of the world, this does not mean that liberal theories are irrelevant. There is at best weak support for the pacific effects of democracy or international institutions in Asia. But liberal expectations, and those of some Asia analysts, about the importance of economic interdependence for reducing conflict in Asia are robustly confirmed. This result obtains even with a control for the simultaneous trade-dampening effect of conflict using structural equations. But the strong intra-Asian effect of trade interdependence does not translate into a robust pacific effect between Asian states and those outside the region. A more nuanced picture emerges; the democratic peace appears most relevant for interactions between Asian states and the rest of the world. The findings show that analysts can rely neither on beliefs that Asia is sui generis nor on purely realist models as guides to Asian security issues. Kantian and realist theories are both relevant. The results also indicate that some common assumptions of analysts, especially regarding the importance of alliances and institutions, are not in accord with the regularities of conflict and peace in Asia
Asia pacific · China · Democracy · Development economics · East Asia · Economic interdependence · Economics · International relations · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Relevance (law) · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
A Universal Proposition? Region, Conflict, War and the Robustness of the Kantian Peace
East Asian relative peace and the Asean Way
Southeast Asian peace revisited
Domestic political institutions and the initiation of international conflict in East Asia
Asean and Southeast Asian peace
A Region Primed for Peace or War? Historical Institutionalism and Debates in East Asian Security
Can economic interests trump ethnic hostility? Trading ties versus outgroup hostility in Australian perceptions of China as a security threat
Economic interdependence and the likelihood of war – a systematic literature review
Barış İnşa Süreçlerinde Yeni Yaklaşımlar
Democratic development and increased militarism in East and Southeast Asian rivalries
Asean's economic security and regional economic cooperation
What Pivot? International Relations Scholarship and the Study of East Asia
The domestic origins of no-war communities
Democracy and War in E ast A sia
Liberal Peace and South Asia
From bombs to banners? The decline of wars and the rise of unarmed uprisings in East Asia
Power, interest or culture – is there a paradigm that explains Asean's political role best
Economics and security in the Asia-Pacific region
Democracy or death? Will democratisation bring greater regional instability to East Asia
Southeast Asia and conflict prevention. Is Asean running out of steam
Asia's new long march
East Asian relative peace – does it exist? What is it
Kantian Dynamics Revisited
Security Threats, Enemy-Contingent Policies, and Economic Development in Dictatorships
Economic Interdependence and Peace
Crisis stability or general stability? Assessing Northeast Asia’s absence of war and prospects for liberal transition
Healthy populations, political stability, and regime type
Crisis stability or general stability? Assessing Northeast Asia’s absence of war and prospects for liberal transition
What (If Anything) Does East Asia Tell Us About International Relations Theory
Trade does promote peace
Foreign direct investment and militarized international conflict
Asia Redux
Triangulating Peace
The State, War, and the State of War
The Third World Security Predicament
The rise of the trading state
Regions of War and Peace
All International Politics Is Local
Limited-dependent and qualitative variables in econometrics
Conflict management strategies in Asean
Holy Trinities, Rivalry Termination, and Conflict
Eugene
Set for stability? Prospects for conflict and cooperation in East Asia
Ripe for Rivalry
Will Asia's Past Be Its Future
Getting Asia Wrong
Regime transition in the Asia/pacific region
Trends in East Asian international relations
Uncovering the Dangerous Alliances, 1495-1980
The Kantian Peace
Trade Still Follows the Flag
Exploring the Dynamics of the Democratic Peace
Expanded Trade and GDP Data
Democracy, Political Similarity, and International Alliances, 1816-1992
The Study of Interdependence and Conflict
Causes of Peace
Grasping the Commercial Institutional Peace
Inter-State, Intra-State, and Extra-State Wars
Why is There No Nato in Asia? Collective Identity, Regionalism, and the Origins of Multilateralism
Democracy from the Outside-In? International Organizations and Democratization
Investing in the Peace
Asia‐Pacific security regimes
Toward a New Political Methodology
In Defense of Multiplicative Terms in Multiple Regression Equations
A Universal Proposition? Region, Conflict, War and the Robustness of the Kantian Peace
The Classical Liberals Were Half Right (or Half Wrong)
Economic Interdependence
The Long Peace of Asean
The Liberal Peace and Conflictive Interactions
Development and the Liberal Peace
Uncertainty of the Liberal Peace
Dictatorial Peace
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |