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How Democracies Keep the Peace: Contextual Factors That Influence Conflict Management Strategies

Some studies find that democratic states are more amenable to third party forms of conflict management, while other studies indicate that democracies are able to resolve contentious issues on their own through bilateral negotiations. Using data from the Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) Project, the authors investigate peaceful and militarized conflict management strategies that democratic states ...

War, Trade, and Distrust: Why Trade Agreements Don’t Always Keep the Peace*

There is growing evidence that preferential trade agreements (PTAs) provide strong institutional incentives to prevent international conflict among member states, often creating the conditions of trust that can help prevent militarized aggression. We provide an approach to the study of how international institutions influence conflict behavior that considers how PTAs exclude as well as include ...

The Peace

From the eminent point of view which the happy consummation of peace has led us to, we may survey at our leisure the condition of the European powers. Warned by the past, we look upon the present state of the world with a cautious, as well as a critical eye. According to our conception, the study of Mind, in its broad physiognomy of nations and dynasties, of religion and civilization, is the hi...

Peace Negotiations and Peace Talks: the Peace Process in the Public Sphere

The article develops an understanding of public deliberations during a peace process, focusing on the interaction between the elite level negotiations and the “public peace process.” It does so by examining the dialogical mechanisms that are set to work in the public sphere once the elite consider the possibility of identifying the former enemies as allies or friends. These dialogical mechanism...

Violence , Peace , and Peace Research