Globalization is often seen as consisting of economic virtues and political vices. I provide a more optimistic interpretation of the effects of economic integration on international politics, arguing that autonomous global markets help to promote world peace. I use game theory to show that the claims of competing states can be made more credible by investors able to re-allocate capital across n...

The argument that democratization can bring about war is a powerful critique suggesting limits to the linkage between democracy and peace. This research examines this claim. Our findings demonstrate that democratizing polities are substantially less war prone than previously argued. By focusing on the characteristics of the transition process, we show that as contemporary polities become more d...

Towards Peace of Mind. Everyday Problems of Mental health. By Karl M. Bowman, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Boston Psychopathic Hospital. With a Preface by Professor Cyril Burt. Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 6/-. This is a book giving the essentials of modern psychology and its practical deductions in nontechnical language intelligible to any educated reader however slight his previous knowledge of the su...

an impressive international apparatus dedicated to peacebuilding—that is, the attempt to build stable, legitimate, and effective states after war—has emerged.1 The arst sustained push in this direction came with the development of second-generation peacekeeping operations that both monitored cease-ares and attempted to help states emerging from civil wars develop the requisites for a stable pea...

The term discourse theory encompasses a diverse set of insights, assumptions, and concepts that have emerged across a range of disciplines in recent decades. Discourse theory generally derives from the “ linguistic turn ” in the humanities and social sciences that traces back to the work of infl uential fi gures such as Ferdinand de Saussure, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Michel Foucault (Rorty, 199...

Ever since President Bush introduced his ‘Road Map’ for a permanent solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in April 2003, a great deal of public attention has focused on its demand for a reformed Palestinian Authority (PA) to confront aggressively radical Palestinian groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad who violently oppose a two-state solution to the conflict. One of the major obstacle...

This paper examines the possibility for two contestants to agree on a peace settlement thereby avoiding a contest, in which each would exert a costly effort given the posterior distributions inferred from the negotiation. I find a necessary and sufficient condition of the prior distributions for there to exist a negotiation mechanism that admits a peace-ensuring perfect Bayesian equilibrium. Th...

Liberal scholars in the international relations discipline argue that peace among nations would be the consequence of three complementary influences. First, republican constitutions eliminate autocratic caprice in waging war. Second, “an understanding of the legitimate rights of all citizens and of all republics comes into play” with the spread of democracy. This creates a moral foundation for ...