Peter Graeff / Guido Mehlkop (ed.)

Capitalism, Democracy and the Prevention of War and Poverty

Herausgeber: Graeff, Peter; Mehlkop, Guido

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on insights from several disciplines, this book intends to find scientific answers to explain the relationship between conflict and poverty. It is suitable for students and scholars of International Relations and globalization, and for a broader range of subjects, including sociology, political science and economics.

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This book seeks to explore and understand the causes of war and poverty, drawing on the theory of democratic peace and the theory of capitalistic peace. It discusses: democracy, conflict resolution, economic development and industrial modernization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780415467407
• ISBN-10: 0415467403
• Artikelnr.: 25683251

Autorenporträt

Dr. Peter Graeff is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His research interests include positive and negative social capital, statistics/methodology, conflict and military sociology. Previous publications include Why Nations Arm in Age of Globalization, Comparative Sociology, 2 (4), 2003, (with Guido Mehlkop). Dr. Guido Mehlkop is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Dresden University of Technology, Germany. His research interests include the institutional and cultural determinants of economic growth and income inequality; the economic theory of conflict and crime, and military sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Thucydides, Ancient Greece and the Democratic Peace 3.
What Is The Democratic Peace And Why Pursue It? 4. Production, Prosperity,
Preferences and Peace 5. Peace by Interdemocratic Institutions? A
Theoretical Framework 6. Rewards of Freedom: Democracy and the Inflow of
Foreign Direct Investment, 1984- 7. Is the IMF right? How robust is the
relationship between market-oriented institutions and policies and economic
growth? 8. Economic Freedom, Wealth and Corruption: Analyzing their
empirical connection by means of correspondence analysis 9. Varieties of
Capitalism and Social Change in Rich Democracies 10. Authority: a social
coordination-mechanism A Contribution to the Explanation and Analysis of
Social Mechanisms 11. Conclusion