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Title: Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations (The Norton Series in World Politics) by Bruce Russett, John R. Oneal ISBN: 0-393-97684-X Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.45 |
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Summary: The Kantian Tripod of Peace
Comment: Bruce Russett and John R. Oneal make a great contrubution to the epistemology of war and peace by Triangulating Peace. The book is about democracy, interdependence and international organizations. In Triangulating Peace, Russett and Oneal argue that democracy, economic interdependence and international organizations together lead to peace and they prevent war and/or conflict. They reach this conclusion after a well-studied statistical analysis that embraces all militarized inter-state disputes from 1885 to 1994. The data is gathered by the University of Michigan's Correlates of War Project. Russett and Oneal give many references to Kant's treatise on peace and even they label Triangulating Peace as the Kantian Peace. They argue that the Kantian Peace thesis is superior to democratic peace thesis. The three legs of Kantian peace, democracy, economic interdependence and international organizations generate virtuous cycles of peace in opposed to vicious cycles of war. These three factors also positively affect each other. However, the authors do not argue that all three factors have equal power in leading to peace. Economic interdependence has the most explanatory power while international organizations have the least one. How does democracy lead to international cooperation and peace? Russett and Oneal mention the factors of legitimacy, accountability, institutional checks and balances, transparency, and credibility of international agreements, through them democratic states produce patterns of cooperation and it leads to peace. Economic interdependence, on the other hand, creates processes of reciprocal attention and communication, perceptions of needs and responsiveness, and bonds of mutually rewarding transactions and feelings of community. Economic interdependence also increases the prospects for international peace throughout international trade. It generates security communities by creating sense of 'we feeling' among cooperating states. It finally reduces the possibility of conflict. Like democracy and economic interdependence, international organizations also reduce the likelihood for conflict. International organizations and institutions teach set of norms that sharply revise states' conceptions of power. In sum, Russett and Oneal points out that the Kantian tripod for peace is the strongest pathway in reducing international conflict.Their statistical study also demonstrates that realist and liberal explanations of conflict/war are superior to Samuel P. Huntington's 'the clash of civilizations' thesis. In regard to current world politics, Russett and Oneal urge that incorporating Russia and China into the Kantian system will increase the prospects of a peaceful feature. They also urge that unilateral pattern of behavior for the U.S. would be dangerous for the future of international system while the U.S. multilateralism will make positive contribution to the world peace and stability. Overall, this book can be easily considered as a must reading for students of international relations. It can be higly recommended for general public alike.
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Title: The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, 49) by Susan Strange ISBN: 0521564409 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: New Thinking in International Relations Theory by Michael W. Doyle, G. John Ikenberry ISBN: 0813399661 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
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Title: Politics Among Nations, Brief Edition by Hans J Morgenthau, Kenneth W Thompson ISBN: 0070433062 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $36.71 |
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Title: Theory of International Politics by Kenneth N Waltz ISBN: 0075548526 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 01 January, 1979 List Price(USD): $81.65 |
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Title: Classic Readings of International Relations by Phil Williams, Donald M. Goldstein, Jay M. Shafritz ISBN: 0155055437 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company Pub. Date: 21 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $64.95 |
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