03555nam 2200697Ia 450 991045106140332120200520144314.01-281-36372-397866113637271-4039-7825-510.1057/9781403978257(CKB)1000000000342902(SSID)ssj0000122851(PQKBManifestationID)11140016(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122851(PQKBWorkID)10130792(PQKB)10513968(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7825-7(MiAaPQ)EBC307666(Au-PeEL)EBL307666(CaPaEBR)ebr10135427(CaONFJC)MIL136372(OCoLC)560461382(EXLCZ)99100000000034290220040816d2005 uy 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrCivil-military dynamics, democracy, and international conflict[electronic resource] a new quest for international peace /Seung-Whan Choi and Patrick James1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillanc20051 online resource (XIV, 197 p.) Advances in foreign policy analysisBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-349-52844-7 1-4039-6485-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-192) and index.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.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.Advances in foreign policy analysis.Peacekeeping forcesConflict managementInternational relationsDemocracyElectronic books.Peacekeeping forces.Conflict management.International relations.Democracy.322/.5Choi Seung-Whan876237James Patrick1957-890323MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451061403321Civil-military dynamics, democracy, and international conflict2139947UNINA