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Globalization and Armed Conflict addresses one of the most important and controversial issues of our time: Does global economic integration foster or suppress violent disputes within and between states? Here, cutting-edge research by leading figures in international relations shows that expanding commercial ties between states pacifies some, but not necessarily all, political relationships. The authors demonstrate that the pacific effect of economic integration hinges on democratic structures, the size of the global system, the nature of the trade goods, and a reduced influence of the military on political decisions. In sum, this book demonstrates how important the still fragile 'capitalist peace' is.

Table of Contents

Part 1 I Competing Models of the Peace-Through-Globalization Hypothesis
Chapter 2 Does Globalization Contribute to Peace? A Critical Survey of the Literature
Chapter 3 Multilateral Interactions in the Trade-Conflict Model
Chapter 4 When Do 'Relative Gains' Impede Trade?
Chapter 5 Extending the Multi-Country Model of Trade and Conflict
Chapter 6 The Domestic Roots of Commercial Liberalism: A Sector-Specific Approach
Chapter 7 How Globalization Can Reduce International Conflict
Part 8 II Empirical Contributions
Chapter 9 Assessing the Liberal Peace with Alternative Specifications: Trade Still Reduces Conflict
Chapter 10 Modeling Dynamics in the Study of Conflict: A Comment on Oneal and Russett
Chapter 11 Modeling Conflict While Studying Dynamics: A Response to Nathaniel Beck
Chapter 12 The Trade and Conflict Debate: Exploring the Frontier
Chapter 13 Development and the Liberal Peace: What Does it Take to be a Trading State?
Chapter 14 Institutions, Interdependence, and International Conflict
Chapter 15 Globalization and Internal Conflict
Chapter 16 The Trade-Disruption Hypothesis and the Liberal Economic Theory of Peace
Chapter 17 Does War Disrupt Trade?
Chapter 18 Globalization: Creative Destruction and the Prospect of a Capitalist Peace

Product details

Published 11 Jun 2003
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 1
ISBN 9798216238515
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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