Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations

by Bruce Russett, Bruce Russett

Does democracy reduce conflict? Triangulating Peace tackles today’s most provocative hypothesis in the field of international the democratic peace proposition. Drawing on ideas originally put forth by Immanuel Kant, the authors argue that democracy, economic interdependence, and international mediation can successfully cooperate to significantly reduce the chances of war.

Genres: Political Science, Academic, International Relations, Nonfiction, Grad School

393 pages, Paperback

First published December 18, 2000

Reviews

[Melanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was good. Focused in classical IR theory, adds to the knowledge on the Democratic peace theory. I think something that was missing from this argument is the nature of state interactions going into bargaining. It makes a difference if states interact regularly and have trade. I feel that there is a certain amount of the explanation that is endogenous in the argument. Its hard to tell which of the components to democratic peace are causal and which are correlated.

[Blamb009 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I TRIANGULATE /YOUR/ PEACE, Russet and O'Neal.

Actually this one is pretty good, the old "Kantian Triangle."