Signing Up for Peace
International Boundary Agreements, Democracy, and Militarized Interstate Conflict1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6272736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew P Owsiak (0000-0001-7938-9810, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-66 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8833 • E-ISSN: 1468-2478 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2478.2011.00699.x |
| OpenAlex | W1582684281 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
| References cited | 54 |
Can states usher in more peaceful relations with their neighbors by signing agreements that delineate their territorial boundaries? Theory suggests such a possibility, but the empirical evidence to date remains limited by research design and variable measurement decisions. After assembling a new data set on international boundary agreements, the current study conducts the first thorough test of this question during the period 1816–2001. The findings indicate that once neighboring states settle their borders, they are less likely to go to war or experience militarized interstate disputes with one another. These pacific effects persist across numerous time periods even after controlling for joint democracy, a characteristic that both theory and this analysis show to be positively related to settled borders. Through these findings, the study suggests that signing international boundary agreements can bring neighbors a more peaceful relationship with one another, regardless of the characteristics of their respective governmental regimes
Boundary (topology · Democracy · International relations · International relations theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Test (biology · Variable (mathematics · Computer Science · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Mathematics · Political Conflict and Governance
Polarization, Shifting Borders and Liquid Governance
Single-Party Autocracies, Sanctions, and Conflict Mediation
Endogenous Sources of Compliance with Territorial Agreements
Selling international law enforcement
Citizen preferences about border arrangements in divided societies
Revisionist Conflict and State Repression
The Taming of The Red Dragon
Peaceful Dispute Resolution by Authoritarian Regimes
The Limited Scope of the Democratic Peace
Revisiting the democratic peace practice
Re-Imagin(in)g Territorial Conflict
External threat and the limits of democratic pacifism
Why don’t democracies fight each other? The role of territorial issues
The International Border Agreements Dataset
Power, territory, and interstate conflict
From territorial claims to identity claims
Border settlement and the movement toward and from negative peace
Foundations for integrating the democratic and territorial peace arguments
Managing territorial conflict
Disputed territory, defensive alliances and conflict initiation
Peaceful dyads
Sequencing the Steps to War
Moral hazard at sea
Temporal Dependence and the Sensitivity of Quantities of Interest
Reluctant acceptance of legal solutions to territorial disputes as signals of foreign policy reorientation
International Trade and Coordination
International Law and the Consolidation of Peace Following Territorial Changes
Democratization and International Border Agreements
Clearing the Hurdle
The Diffusion of International Border Agreements
Unpacking Territorial Disputes
Producing Goods and Projecting Power
Democracy and the Settlement of International Borders, 1919 to 2001
A Liberal Peace
Chipping Away at the Issues
Getting to the Root of the Issue(s)
Safe Across the Border
International Law, Territorial Disputes, and Foreign Direct Investment
Borders, Conflict, and Trade
Prediction, Proxies, and Power
The Cart and the Horse Redux
Transboundary conservation and militarized interstate disputes
Border settlement, commitment problems, and the causes of contiguous rivalry
What states want
Border Settlement Dynamics and Border Status Quo
Territorial revision and state repression
Territory and war
The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes dataset, 1945-2015
The Historical Origins of Territorial Disputes
Triangulating Peace
The War Puzzle Revisited
The War Puzzle
The Steps to War
Strategic Rivalries in World Politics
The Democratic Peace and Territorial Conflict in the Twentieth Century
War and Peace in International Rivalry
The Correlates of War (Cow) Project Direct Contiguity Data, Version 3.0
The MID 3 data set, 1993–2001
Peace and War
Democracy and Redistribution
Pacifism and Fightaholism in International Politics
The Correlates of War Data On War
The MID3 Data Set, 1993—2001
Borders, Rivalry, Democracy, and Conflict in the European Region, 1816-1994
Constructing Multivariate Analyses (of Dangerous Dyads)
Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1816–1992
Charting A Course To Conflict
Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions, 1815-1944
Eugene
Polities and Peace
Boundaries, Possessions, and Conflicts in South America
Border and territorial disputes
Taking Time Seriously
Political Tolerance and Territorial Threat
Territorial Disputes and Interstate War, 1945-1987
Territorial Diversion
Dangerous Dyads
Bones of Contention
Bordering on Peace
A Unified Explanation of Territorial Conflict
Contested Territory, Strategic Rivalries, and Conflict Escalation
Beyond Territorial Contiguity
Contentious Issues and World Politics
Toward a New Political Methodology
The Origins and War Proneness of Interstate Rivalries
Territory, Contiguity, and International Conflict
Making the Most of Statistical Analyses
International Institutions and Compliance with Agreements
Assessing the Steps to War
Geographic dimensions of enduring rivalries
Boundaries, Possessions, and Conflicts in Central and North America and the Caribbean
Border and Territorial Disputes
Why Do Neighbors Fight? Proximity, Interaction, or Territoriality
Territorial Disputes and the Probability of War, 1816-1992
What Are They Fighting For? The Importance of Issues in International Conflict Research
The New Rivalry Dataset
Normative and Structural Causes of Democratic Peace, 1946-1986
The Flawed Logic of Democratic Peace Theory
An Institutional Explanation of the Democratic Peace
Boundaries, Possessions and Conflicts in Central and North America and the Caribbean
| Unique citing works | 49 |
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| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 49 |