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Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations
Bruce Russett,John R. Oneal +1 more
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Triangulating Peace as mentioned in this paper argues that democracy, economic interdependence, and international mediation can successfully cooperate to significantly reduce the chances of war in the field of international relations, and it is based on ideas originally put forth by Immanuel Kant.Abstract:
Triangulating Peace tackles today's most provocative hypothesis in the field of international relations: the democratic peace proposition. Drawing on ideas originally put forth by Immanuel Kant, the authors argue that democracy, economic interdependence, and international mediation can successfully cooperate to significantly reduce the chances of war.read more
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Democratization and International Organizations
Abstract: International organizations ~IOs! have become increasingly pervasive features of the global landscape+ While the implications of this development have been studied extensively, relatively little research has examined the factors that prompt states to enter IOs+ We argue that democratization is an especially potent impetus to IO membership+ Democratizing countries are likely to enter IOs because leaders have difficulty credibly committing to sustain liberal reforms and the consolidation of democracy+ Chief executives often have an incentive to solidify their position during democratic transitions by rolling back political liberalization+ Entering an IO can help leaders in transitional states credibly commit to carry out democratic reforms, espe- cially if the organization is composed primarily of democratic members+ Tests of this hypothesis, based on a new data set of IOs covering the period from 1965 to 2000, confirm that democratization spurs states to join IOs+ In recent years, international organizations ~IOs! have become increasingly perva- sive features of the global landscape+ Both the number of such organizations and the range of issue-areas they cover have grown rapidly+ The implications of this development have been studied extensively and hotly debated in the field of inter- national relations+ Whereas some researchers believe that IOs have little effect on state behavior, many observers argue that the proliferation of these institutions will facilitate interstate cooperation and help to resolve the interstate conflicts that do arise+ 1 In contrast, relatively little research has been conducted on the factors that prompt states to enter IOs+ This gap in the literature is both surprising and important+ While many countries have rushed to join IOs, others participate in few of these organizations+ What determines the propensity of states to join IOs?
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Power Positions: International Organizations, Social Networks, and Conflict
TL;DR: A growing number of international relations scholars argue that intergovernmental organizations (IGO) promote peace as discussed by the authors, and they emphasize IGO membership as an important causal attribute of good international relations.
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Trade Still Follows the Flag: The Primacy of Politics in a Simultaneous Model of Interdependence and Armed Conflict
TL;DR: This paper used Maddala's estimator, which is designed for a two-equation system in which one endogenous variable is continuous and the other is dichotomous, to condition the estimates on recent histories of dyadic trade and conflict.
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Trade does promote peace: New simultaneous estimates of the reciprocal effects of trade and conflict:
TL;DR: The authors showed that trade does not reduce conflict, though conflict reduces trade, and that both trade and conflict are influenced by nations' sizes and the distance separating them, so these fundamental exogenous factors must be included in models of conflict as well as trade.
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Public Opinion and the Democratic Peace
Michael Tomz,Jessica L. P. Weeks +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that individuals are substantially less supportive of military strikes against democracies than against otherwise identical autocracies, and that shared democracy pacifies the public primarily by changing perceptions of threat and morality, not by raising expectations of costs or failure.