Democracy and Security

Preferences, Norms and Policy-Making
Herausgeber: Evangelista, Matthew; Schoernig, Niklas; Muller, Harald

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It has become generally accepted wisdom that democracies do not go to war against each other. However, there are significant differences between democratic states in terms of their approach to war and security policy in general. This edited book offers a broad examination of how democratic preferences and norms are relevant to security policy beyond the decision of whether to go to war. It therefore offers a fresh understanding of state behaviour in the security realm. The contributors discuss such issues as defence policy, air war, cluster bombs, non-lethal weapons, weapons of mass destruction, democratic and non-democratic nuclear weapon states' transparency, and the political and ideological background of the ongoing 'Revolution in Military Affairs'. It has become generally accepted wisdom that democracies do not go to war against each other. However, there are significant differences between democratic states in terms of their approach to war and security policy in general.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780415576512
• ISBN-10: 0415576512
• Artikelnr.: 28528177

Autorenporträt

Matthew Evangelista is Professor of Government at Cornell University. Harald Müller is Director of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and Professor for International Relations, Frankfurt University. Niklas Schörnig is a research fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Harald Müller and Matthew Evangelista 2. Casualty Aversion
in Democratic Security Provision: Procurement and the Defense Industrial
Base Niklas Schörnig 3. Non-Lethal Weapons: Democratic Necessity or
Business as Usual? Jürgen Altmann and Judith Reppy 4. Air War and
Restraint: The Role of Public Opinion and Democracy Stephen Watts 5.
Curbing the Use of Indiscriminate Weapons: NGO Advocacy in Militant
Democracies Margarita H. Petrova 6. Technology, Nuclear Arms Control, and
Democracy: Reflections in the Light of Democratic Peace Theory Harald
Müller and Una Becker 7. Strained Relationships: The Revolution in Military
Affairs, Democracy and Arms Control Olivier Minkwitz 8. Torn Apart: Nuclear
Secrecy and Openness in Democratic Nuclear Weapon States Annette Schaper
and Harald Müller 9. Much Ado About Democracy: Some Skeptical Observations
on Democracies and War Matthew Evangelista and Judith Reppy 10. Security
Studies' Cinderella? Why Democratic Peace Theory Should be Invited to the
King's Ball Harald Müller and Niklas Schörnig