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Grasping the Democratic Peace - by Bruce Russett (Paperback)

Grasping the Democratic Peace - by  Bruce Russett (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>By illuminating the conflict-resolving mechanisms inherent in the relationships between democracies, Bruce Russett explains one of the most promising developments of the modern international system: the striking fact that the democracies that it comprises have almost never fought each other.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>"A very important book on a timely subject by a well-known and rigorous scholar. The book addresses a subject that has been of great interest recently both to academics and in policy circles: whether democracies ever fight wars with each other; and if not, why not."<b>--Jack L. Snyder, Columbia University</b></p><p>"The best book yet written on the important question of why democracies appear not to fight wars with each other even though they do fight with non-democratic states. . . . This is a highly original and provocative work that is bound to stimulate much discussion and debate."<b>--Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Hoover Insitution and University of Rochester</b></p><p>"This is a sophisticated and interesting book on what is undoubtedly the hot topic among students of international relations. Given the book's subject and its high quality, <i>Grasping the Democratic Peace</i> will be essential reading."<b>--Aaron Friedberg, Princeton University</b></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Bruce Russett's laudable book summarizes, dissects, and expands our understanding of the disinclination shown by democracies to fight each other, a finding that has spawned a minor cottage industry of analytic studies. . . . the book combines rigor and relevance, maturity and originality.-- "American Political Science Review"<br><br>In <i>Grasping the Democratic Peace, </i> Bruce Russett has published a powerful book clarifying the theoretical debate and producing additional support for the relative pacifism of democracies from previously untapped sources. The book will quickly claim a secure place in the literature for its insight and empirical originality. No student of international relations can fail to profit from a close read.<b>----David A. Lake, <i>The Journal of Politics</i></b><br><br>Russett finds this [the proposition that democracies do not fight each other] to be an extraordinarily robust conclusion.... [The book] presents a challenge to realists while providing a rigorous undergirding to what has become a widespread view.<b>---Francis Fukuyama, <i>Foreign Affairs</i></b><br><br>The ambition and scope of the study provides the illuminating and unexpected insights into the relationships between war and democracy.<b>---Roland Dannreuther, <i>Survival</i></b><br><br>The descriptive phase of scholarly research on the absence of war between democratic dyads has been largely completed, and attention is now shifting to alternative explanations for this well-confirmed empirical generalization. The best place to begin, both for a summary of the descriptive evidence and for an attempt to explain it, is Bruce Russett's <i>Grasping the Democratic Peace.</i><b>---Jack S. Levy, <i>International Studies Review</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Bruce Russett</b> is Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Yale University and editor of the <i>Journal of Conflict Resolution.</i> His many works include <i>Controlling the Sword: The Democratic Governance of National Security</i> and <i>The Prisoners of Insecurity: Nuclear Deterrence, the Arms Race, and Arms Control.</i> In writing <i>Grasping the Democratic Peace, </i> he was accompanied by anthropologists Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember and political scientists William Antholis and Zeev Maoz

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