Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World

by Bruce Russet

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.

Genres: International Relations, Political Science

184 pages, Paperback

First published July 12, 1993

Reviews

[Steven Peterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

One observation emerging from empirical study is that democracies in the modern age rarely war against one another. This book provides a series of essays exploring this "democratic peace." It is one of the more rigorous and useful of the works on the subject. Still well worth reading. . . .

[mel · Rating 4 out of 5]

still relevant 30 years later