Table of Contents

1: Introduction; I: The Most Important Fact of Our Time; Introduction to Part I; 2: No War between Democracies; 3: Democracy Limits Bilateral Violence; 4: Democracies are Least Warlike; 5: Democracies are Most Internally Peaceful; 6: Democracies Don’t Murder Their Citizens; II: Why are Democracies Nonviolent?; Introduction to Part II; 7: A New Fact?; 8: What is to be Explained?; 9: First-Level Explanation: The People’s Will; 10: Second-Level Explanation: Cross-Pressures, Exchange Culture, and In-Group Perception; 11: Third-Level Explanation I: Social Field and Freedom; 12: Third-Level Explanation II: Antifield and Power; 13: Power Kills

About the Author

R. J. Rummel is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii. He is also the author of Death by Government, Democide, and Lethal Politics, all published by Transaction. He was nominated for the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his work on this subject.

Reviews

"The result of four decades of truly brilliant intellectual inquiry.... No scholar has done more in this century to promote understanding about the true causes of internal and external State violence...." - Robert F. Turner, Center for National Security Law, University of Virginia "Rummel mobilizes every resource (logical and empirical), tracks down virtually every related study, and defends his thesis with the energy of a knight of the round table and the hand of a master scholar." - Jack Vincent, Borah Professor of Political Science, University of Idaho