Arbeitspapier

The Democratic Peace Unraveled: It’s the Economy

Recent research indicates that the democratic peace - the observation that democratic nations rarely fight each other - is spurious: that advanced capitalism accounts for both democracy and the democratic peace (Mousseau 2009). This is not a trivial prospect: if economic conditions explain the democratic peace, then a great deal of research on governing institutions and foreign policy is probably obsolete. This study addresses all the recent defenses of the democratic peace and reports new results using a new measure that directly gauges the causal mechanism of contract flows dependent on third-party enforcement. Analyses of most nations from 1961 to 2001 show contract-intensive "impersonal" economy to be the second most powerful variable in international conflict - following only contiguity - and, once considered, there is no evidence of causation from democracy to peace. It is impersonal economy, not democracy or unfettered markets, which appears to explain the democratic peace.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 1207

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Politischer Konflikt
Außenwirtschaftspolitik
Demokratie
Systemvergleich
Welt

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Mousseau, Michael
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Koç University-TÜSİAD Economic Research Forum (ERF)
(wo)
Istanbul
(wann)
2012

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Mousseau, Michael
  • Koç University-TÜSİAD Economic Research Forum (ERF)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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