Trade networks and the Kantian peace

Dorussen, Han; Ward, Hugh

doi:10.1177/0022343309350011

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“…Dorussen & Ward (2010) and Lupu & Traag (2013) find support for the democratic peace while accounting for the pacifying impact of trade networks. Maoz (2006) finds that large 'democratic cliques' in networks dampen conflicts, but Cranmer & Desmarais (2011) conclude that the support for this claim is weak when using a more appropriate statistical method.…”

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Democracy and armed conflict

Hegre

2014

Journal of Peace Research

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The article reviews the literature on the relationship between democracy and armed conflict, internal as well as interstate. The review points to several similarities between how democratic institutions affect both conflict types. It summarizes the main empirical findings and discusses the most prominent explanations as well as the most important objections raised to the finding, empirically and theoretically. To a large degree, the empirical finding that pairs of democratic states have a lower risk of interstate conflict than other pairs holds up, as does the conclusion that consolidated democracies have less conflict than semi-democracies. The most critical challenge to both conclusions is the position that both democracy and peace are due to pre-existing socio-economic conditions. I conclude that this objection has considerable leverage, but it also seems clear that economic development is unlikely to bring about lasting peace alone, without the formalization embedded in democratic institutions.

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Democracy and armed conflict

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2014

Journal of Peace Research

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“…386-9) suggests that more extensive trade ties explain diffusion of domestic economic policies. Dorussen and Ward (2010) provide evidence that networked trade relations can also diffuse political norms, specifically nonviolent interstate conflict resolution. The diffusion of norms governing political interaction and institutions may also happen in regional and global intergovernmental organizations with a political rather than economic mandate; for example, the role of the UN in advancing human rights as a global norm, or the EU in promoting democratization by making it a condition for membership.…”

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EU-China Security Cooperation in Context

2015

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The paper has two main aims. First it seeks to explore whether security cooperation between the EU and China is taking place, and if so, whether it is evenly spread across a number of security dimensions. Second it intends to investigate the underlying motives or drivers that either facilitate or inhibit EU-China security cooperation. Further, it will explain why the EU rather than EU member states is chosen as the unit of analysis, explore the development of EU-China security relations, and illustrate how historical legacies, identity aspects and differences over key issues, such as sovereignty and territorial integrity, affect EU-China security relations. In addition, it will deal with the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the study on EU-China security relations, paying particular emphasis to the concepts of diffusion and convergence. Whether or not EU-China security cooperation converges in one of the ten chosen security dimensions will be assessed by the degree of policy conformity the EU and China are able (or unable) to obtain with regard to threat perceptions and policy response thereto. Attention will be devoted to diffusion factors which can affect changes in the perception of threats and response thereof. Among these factors are changes in (geo-political) structure, interests and norms. A further objective of the paper will be to explore whether policy convergence on threat perceptions and response thereto might be a precondition for joint action, or whether practical cooperation can take place without prior policy convergence between the EU and China. The paper will round off with a short section introducing the security dimensions that are being examined in the more detailed study on which this paper is based.

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“…The rivalry relationship is characterized by military confrontation and war, with both sides formulating foreign policy in militaristic terms (Diehl and Goertz, 2001). The linkage between war and decline in trade is well established in the liberal peace literature (Anderton and Carter, 2001;Barbieri and Levy, 1999;Diehl, 2001;Dorussen and Ward, 2010;Gowa, 1994). However, it is important to note that all rivalries do not necessarily experience open war during the rivalry, but instead can experience a protracted period of low intensity conflict.…”

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