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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451061403321

Autore

Choi Seung-Whan

Titolo

Civil-military dynamics, democracy, and international conflict [[electronic resource] ] : a new quest for international peace / / Seung-Whan Choi and Patrick James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005

ISBN

1-281-36372-3

9786611363727

1-4039-7825-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 197 p.)

Collana

Advances in foreign policy analysis

Altri autori (Persone)

JamesPatrick <1957->

Disciplina

322/.5

Soggetti

Peacekeeping forces

Conflict management

International relations

Democracy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-192) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. A review of democracy, peace, and other things -- 3. A new look at international conflict and peace : four factors to consider -- 4. Research design -- 5. Accounting for militarized interstate disputes -- 6. Accounting for fatal militarized interstate disputes -- 7. A key issue of measurement : military expenditure and civil-military relations -- 8. A closer look at media openness : from institutional democracy to media openness? -- 9. The quest for peace.

Sommario/riassunto

Addressing decision-making over interstate disputes and the democratic peace thesis, Choi and James build an interactive foreign policy decision-making model with a special emphasis on civil-military relations, conscription, diplomatic channels and media openness. Each is significant in explaining decisions over dispute involvement. The temporal scope is broad while the geographic scope is global. The result is sophisticated analysis of the causes of conflict and factors that can ameliorate it, and a generalizable approach to the study of foreign relations. The findings that media openness contributes to peaceful



resolution of disputes, that the greater the influence of the military the more likely for their to be interstate disputes, that conscription is likely to have the same effect, and that increases in diplomatic interaction correlate with increased conflict are sure to generate debate.