Part I. Introduction: 1. Investigating 'democratic wars' as the flipside of 'democratic peace' Anna Geis and Harald Müller; 2. The empirical study of 'democratic wars': methodology and methods Niklas Schörnig, Harald Müller and Anna Geis; Part II. Opting In, Opting Out: Liberal Democracies and War: 3. The United States: the American way of leading the world into democratic wars Stephanie Sohnius; 4. 'The right thing to do'? British interventionism after the Cold War Marco Fey; 5. 'O ally, stand by me': Australia's ongoing balancing act between geography and history Niklas Schörnig; 6. Canada: standing on guard for international law and human security? Una Becker-Jakob; 7. French ambiguities: of civilising, diplomatic and military missions Johanna Eckert; 8. Burdens of the past, shadows of the future: the use of military force as a challenge for the German 'civilian power' Anna Geis; 9. Moving beyond neutrality: Sweden's changing attitude towards the military use of force Carmen Wunderlich; Part III. Conclusion: 10. Liberal democracies as militant 'forces for good': a comparative perspective Anna Geis, Harald Müller and Niklas Schörnig; 11. The appropriateness of the liberal use of force: 'democratic wars' under US hegemony Anna Geis and Harald Müller; Appendix: methodology.
Shifts the often naïve focus of democratic peace theory towards liberal-democratic militancy and highlights the role of national identities.
Anna Geis is Professor of International Relations at the University of Magdeburg, Germany. Harald Müller is Executive Director of the Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt (PRIF) and Professor of International Relations at Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany. Niklas Schörnig is a Senior Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt (PRIF).
'Focusing on the dark side of the democratic peace, this book
inquires into the ambivalences that have arisen when democracies
fight non-democracies. Focusing on different types of war since the
end of the Cold War, this theoretically self-conscious,
well-designed, data-rich, methodologically sophisticated, tightly
argued and morally nuanced book opens up a new avenue for research
that both enriches and unsettles the conventional wisdom. Its
conclusions pose important intellectual challenges that will
influence international relations research and graduate
instructions for years to come.' Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S.
Carpenter, Jr Professor of International Studies, Cornell
University
'Liberal democracies may not fight one another but they go to war
more frequently than other regime types. Contributors to this
volume find that they do so more for humanitarian reasons than to
bring about regime change or uphold regional and international
order. They find a deep ambivalence about conflict and war in
democracies. Exemplary case studies of multiple democracies inform
these conclusions. Substantively and theoretically, this is the
most impressive study to date of a critically important subject.'
Richard Ned Lebow, King's College London
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