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BIBLIOGRAPHY ON
DEMOCRACY AND WAR *

By R.J. Rummel



This is an English language bibliography of works on the relationship between democracy and war. It is as complete as I could make it for the years through 1994 and also includes those works that have come to my attention in 1995.



Babst, Dean V. "A Force For Peace," Industrial Research (1972) pp. 55-58.

Babst, Dean V. "Elective Governments--A Force For Peace," The Wisconsin Sociologist 3 (1964) pp. 9-14.

Babst, Dean and William Eckhardt. "How Peaceful Are Democracies Compared With Other Countries," Peace Research 24 (1992) pp. 51-57.

Bremer, Stuart A. "Dangerous Dyads: Conditions Affecting the Likelihood of Interstate War, 1816-1965," Journal of Conflict Resolution 36 (1989) pp. 309-341.

Bremer, Stuart A. "Are Democracies Less Likely To Join Wars?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago: September, 1992.

Bremer, Stuart A. "Democracy and Militarized Interstate Conflict, 1816-1965," International Interactions 18 (1993) pp. 231-249.

Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce and David Lalman. 1992 War and Reason: Domestic and International Imperatives. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Butterworth, Robert Lyle. 1976. Managing Interstate Conflict, 1945-1974: Data With Synopsis. Pittsburgh: University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh.

Chan, Steve. "Mirror, Mirror On The Wall...Are Democratic States More Pacific?" Journal of Conflict Resolution 28 (1984) pp. 617-648.

Chan, Steve. "Democracy And War: Some Thoughts On Future Research Agenda," International Interactions 18 (1993) pp. 205-213.

Cole, Timothy Michael. 1987. United States Leadership and the Liberal Community of States. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington.

Cole, Timothy Michael. "Politics And Meaning: Explaining The Democratic Peace," Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 30-September 2, 1990.

Crawford, Neta C. "A Security Regime Among Democracies: Cooperation Among Iroquois Nations," International Organizations 48 (1994) pp. 345-385.

Czempiel, Ernst-Otto. "Governance And Democratization." In Government without Government: Order and Change in World Politics. [edited by] Ernst-Otto Czempiel and James N. Rosenau. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 250-271.

"Democracies and war." The Economist (1995) pp. 17-18.

Dixon, William J. "Democracy And The Management Of International Conflict," Journal of Conflict Resolution 37 (1993) pp. 42-68.

Dixon, William J. "Democracy And The Peaceful Settlement Of International Conflict," American Political Science Review 88 (1994) pp. 1-17.

Domke, William. 1988. War and Changing Global System. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Doyle, Michael. "Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs, Part I," Philosophy and Public Affairs 12 (1983) pp. 205-235. Part II, Ibid. pp. 323-353.

Doyle, Michael. "Liberalism and World Politics," American Political Science Review (1986) pp. 1151-1169.

Doyle, Michael. "Michael Doyle On The Democratic Peace," International Security 19 (1995) pp. 180-184.

Doyle, Michael W. "Liberalism And World Politics Revisited," In Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge. [edited by] Charles W. Kegley, Jr. New York: St. Martins Press, 1995.

Ember, Carol, Melvin Ember, and Bruce Russett. "Peace Between Participatory Polities: A Cross-Cultural Test of the 'Democracies Rarely Fight Each Other' Hypothesis," World Politics 44 (1992).

Engelhardt, Michael. "Democracies, Dictatorships And Counterinsurgency: Does Regime Type Really Matter?" Conflict Quarterly 12 (1992) pp. 52-63.

Fanis, Maria. "Is The Liberal Peace Really Liberal, Or Merely Hegemonic?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, February 22-26, 1995.

Gaubatz, Kurt Taylor. "Election Cycles And War," Journal of Conflict Resolution 35 (1991) pp. 212-244.

Garnham, David. "War-Proneness, War-Weariness, And Regime Type: 1816-1980," Journal of Peace Research 23 (1986) pp. 279-289.

Gastil, Raymond Duncan. "The Comparative Survey Of Freedom: Experiences And Suggestions." In On Measuring Democracy: Its Consequences and Concomitants, [edited by] Alex Inkeles. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1991, pp. 21-46.

Geva, Nehemia, Karl DeRouen, and Alex Mintz. "The Political Incentive Explanation Of The 'Democratic Peace': Evidence From Experimental Research," International Interactions 18 (1993) pp. 215-229.

Gleditsch, Nils Petter. "Democracy And Peace," Journal of Peace Research 29 (1992) pp. 369-376.

Gleditsch, Nils Petter. "Democracy, Opportunity And War," Presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Acapulco, Mexico, March 23-27, 1993.

Gleditsch, Nils Petter. "Democracy And Peace." In Broadening the Frontiers of Human Rights. {edited by} Donna Gomien. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1995, pp. 287-306.

Gleditsch, Nils Petter. "Geography, Democracy, and Peace," International Interactions 19 (1995).

Gleditsch, Nils Petter. "Geography, Democracy, and Peace," Paper presented to the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Acapulco, Mexico, March 23-27, 1993b.

Hewitt, J. Joseph and Jonathan Wilkenfeld. "Democracies In International Crisis," Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, February 22-26, 1995.

Kant, Immanuel. 1957. Perpetual Peace. Translated by Lewis White Beck, New York: The Library of Liberal Arts, Bobbs-Merrill.

Kaufman, Robert G. "A Two-Level Interaction: Structure, Stable Liberal Democracy, And U.S. Grand Strategy," Security Studies 3 (1994) pp. 678-717.

Kegley, Charles W. Jr. "The Neoidealist Moment In International Studies? Realist myths and the new international realities," International Studies Quarterly 37 (1993) pp. 131-146.

Kegley, Charles W., Jr., and Margaret G. Hermann. "The Political Psychology Of Peace Through Democratization," Cooperation and Conflict 30 (1995).

Lake, David A. "Powerful Pacifists: Democratic States And War," American Political Science Review 86 (1992) pp. 24-37.

Layne, Christopher. "Kant Or Cant: The Myth Of The Democratic Peace," International Security 19 (1994) pp. 5-49.

Leeds, Brett Ashley and David R. Davis. "Unraveling The Democratic Peace: Regime Type And International Interactions, 1953-1978," Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, February 22-26, 1995.

Levy, Jack. "Domestic Politics And War," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18 (1988).

Levy, Jack S. "The Causes Of War: A Review Of Theories And Evidence." In Behavior, Society, and Nuclear War. Vol. 1. [edited by] Philip E. Tetlock et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Mansfield, Edward D. and Jack Snyder. "Democratization And The Danger Of War," International Security 20 (1995) pp. 5-38.

Mansfield, Edward D. and Jack Snyder. "Democratization And War," Foreign Affairs 74 (1995) pp. 79-97.

Maoz, Zeev and Nasrin Abdolali. "Regime Types and International Conflict, 1816-1976," Journal of Conflict Resolution (1989), pp. 3-35.

Maoz, Zeev and Bruce Russett. "Alliance, Contiguity, Distance, Wealth, And Political Stability: Is The Lack Of Conflict Among Democracies A Statistical Artifact?" International Interactions 17 (1992) pp. 245-268.

Maoz, Zeev and Bruce Russett. "Normative And Structural Causes Of Democratic Peace, 1946-1986," American Political Science Review 87 (1993) pp. 624-638.

Mintz, Alex, and Nehemia Geva. "Why Don't Democracies Fight Each Other? An Experimental Study," Journal of Conflict Resolution 37 (1993) pp. 484-503.

Morgan, T. Clifton and Sally Howard Campbell. "Domestic Structure, Decisional Constraints, And War--So Why Kant Democracies Fight?" Journal of Conflict Resolution 35 (1991) pp. 187-211.

Morgan, T. Clifton and Valerie L. Schwebach. "Take Two Democracies And Call Me In The Morning: A Prescription For Peace?" International Interactions 17 (1992) pp. 305-320.

A National Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement. Washington, D.C.: The White House, July 1994.

Onuf, Nicholas G. and Thomas J. Johnson. "Peace In The Liberal World: Does Democracy Matter?" In Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge. [edited by] Charles W. Kegley, Jr. New York: St. martin's Press, 1995.

Owen, John M. "How Liberalism Produces Democratic Peace," International Security 19 (1994) pp. 87-125.

Ray, James Lee. "Wars Between Democracies: Rare, Or Nonexistent?" International Interactions 18 (1993) pp. 251-276.

Ray, James Lee 1995. Democracy and International Politics: An Evaluation of the Democratic Peace Proposition. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.

Rittberger, Volker. "On The Peace Capacity Of Democracies. Reflections on the political theory of peace," Law and State 39 (1989) pp. 40-57.

Rummel, R.J. 1979. Understanding Conflict and War: Vol. 4: War, Power, Peace. Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications.

Rummel, R.J. 1981. Understanding Conflict and War: Vol. 5: The Just Peace. Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications.

Rummel, R.J. "Libertarianism and International Violence," The Journal of Conflict Resolution. Vol. 27 (1983) pp. 27-71.

Rummel, R.J. "Libertarian Propositions on Violence Within and Between Nations: A Test Against Published Research Results," The Journal of Conflict Resolution. Vol. 29 (1985) pp. 419-455.

Rummel, R.J. "A Catastrophe Theory Model Of The Conflict Helix, With Tests," Behavioral Science 32 (1987) pp. 241-266.

Rummel, R.J. "On Vincent's View Of Freedom And International Conflict," International Studies Quarterly 31 (1987) pp. 113-117.

Rummel, R.J. "Democracies ARE less warlike than other regimes," European Journal of International Relations Vol. 1 (December 1995):457-479.

Rummel, R. J. 1994. Death By Government. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publications.

Rummel, R. J. 1997. Power Kills.. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publications.

Rummel, R.J. 1997. Statistics of Democide.. Charlottesville, Virginia (22903-1789): Center for National Security Law, School of Law, University of Virginia.

Russett, Bruce. 1990. Controlling the Sword: The Democratic Governance of National Security. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Russett, Bruce. "Toward A More Democratic And Therefore More Peaceful World." In Alternative Security: Living without Nuclear Deterrence. [edited by] Burns Weston. Boulder: Westview, 1990b.

Russett, Bruce. 1993. Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Russett, Bruce. "The Democratic Peace: 'And Yet It Moves'," International Security 19 (1995) pp. 164-177.

Russett, Bruce and William Antholis. "Democracies Rarely Fight Each Other? Evidence From The Peloponnesian War." New Haven, CT: Yale University, International Security Programs, 1991.

Russett, Bruce and William Antholis. "Do Democracies Fight Each Other? Evidence from the Peloponnesian War," Journal of Peace Research 29 (1992) pp. 415-434.

Russett, Bruce with Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. "The Democratic Peace in Nonindustrial Societies." In Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World. [by] Bruce Russett. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993, pp. 99-118.

Russett, Bruce with William Antholis. "The Imperfect Democratic Peace Of Ancient Greece." In Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World. [by] Bruce Russett. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993, pp. 43-71.

Russett, Bruce with Zeev Maoz. "The Democratic Peace Since World War II." In Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World. [by] Bruce Russett. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993, pp. 72-98.

Schweller, Randall. "Domestic Structure And Preventative War: Are Democracies More Pacific?" World Politics 44 (1992) pp. 235-69.

Senese, Paul. "Between Dispute And War: The Effect Of Joint Democracy On Interstate Conflict Escalation," Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, February 22-26, 1995.

Singer, Max and Aaron Wildavsky. 1993. The Real World Order: Zones of Peace/Zones of Turmoil. Chatham, New Jersey: Chatham House Publishers.

Siverson, Randolph M., and Juliann Emmons. "Birds Of A Feather: Democratic Political Systems And Alliances Choices In The Twentieth Century," Journal of Conflict Resolution 35 (1991) pp. 285-306.

Small, M. and J. D. Singer. "The War Proneness of Democratic Regimes, 1816-1965," The Jerusalem Journal of International Relations 1 (1976) pp. 50-69.

Spiro, David E. "The Insignificance Of The Liberal Peace," International Security 19 (1994) pp. 50-86.

Spiro, David. "And Yet It Squirms," International Security 19 (1995) pp. 177-180.

Starr, Harvey. "Why don't Democracies Fight Each Other? Evaluating the theory-findings feedback loop," Jerusalem Journal of International Relations 14 (1992) pp. 41-59.

Vincent, Jack. "Freedom And International Conflict: Another Look," International Studies Quarterly 31 (1987) pp. 103-112.

Vincent, Jack. "On Rummel's Omnipresent Theory," International Studies Quarterly 31 (1987) pp. 119-126.

Wang, Kevin, Noh Soon Chang, and James Lee Ray. "Democracy And The Use Of Force In Militarized Disputes: A Subdyadic Level Analysis," Paper prepared for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. September 3-6, 1992, Chicago, Illinois.

Weart, Spencer. "Peace Among Democratic And Oligarchic Republics," Journal of Peace Research [preprint 1994].

Weart, Spencer. 1998. Never at War: Why Democracies Will Not Fight One Another. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, forthcoming.

Weede, Eric. "Democracy and War Involvement," Journal of Conflict Resolution 28 (1984) pp. 649-664.

Weede, Erich. "Some Simple Calculations On Democracy And War Involvement," Journal of Peace Research 29 (1992) pp. 377-383.

Wildavsky, Aaron. "No War Without Dictatorship, No Peace Without Democracy: Foreign Policy as Domestic Politics," Social Philosophy & Policy 3:1 (1985) pp. 176-191.

"Why They Don't Fight: Democracies, Oligarchies, And Peace," In Brief (No. 48). Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, November 1993.




NOTES

* From the pre-publisher edited manuscript of R.J. Rummel, The Miracle That Is Freedom, 1997. For the full reference and list of contents, click note [7].



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