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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808391803321

Autore

Gleditsch Kristian Skrede <1971->

Titolo

All international politics is local : the diffusion of conflict, integration, and democratization / / Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-43770-4

9786612437700

0-472-02335-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 pages)

Disciplina

327

Soggetti

Democracy

International cooperation

International relations

Regionalism (International organization)

Security, International

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. 241-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1. Zones of Peace, Conflict, and Democracy1 -- 2. A Regional Approach to Conflict, Integration, -- and Democratization 31 -- 3. Empirical Data, Measurement, and Methods 65 -- 4. Do Zones of Democracy and Peace Coevolve? 89 -- 5. Deutschian Integration and the Democratic Peace 119 -- 6. Wealth, Conflict, and the Diffusion of Democracy 147 -- 7. Conclusions and Implications 179 -- Appendixes -- A. Independent States since 1816 203 -- B. Armed Conflicts from 1816 to 1996 208 -- C. A Primer on Generalized Additive Models 217 -- D. Polity Democracy Scale and Modifications 220 -- E. Symbols and Notation 222.

Sommario/riassunto

Looks at disparate zones in the international system to see how conflict, integration, and democracy have clustered over time and space. Kristian Skrede Gleditsch argues that the most interesting aspects of international politics are regional rather than fully global or exclusively national.