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Liberal Peace, Liberal War

American Politics and International Security

By: John Malloy Owen

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Liberal Peace, Liberal War

American Politics and International Security

By: John Malloy Owen

Liberal democracies very rarely fight wars against each other, even though they go to war just as often as other types of states do. John M. Owen IV attributes this peculiar restraint to a synergy between liberal ideology and the institutions that exist within these states. Liberal elites identify their interests with those of their counterparts in foreign states, Owen contends. Free discussion and regular competitive elections allow the agitations of the elites in liberal democracies to shape foreign policy, especially during crises, by influencing governmental decision makers. Several previous analysts have offered theories to explain liberal peace, but they have not examined the state. This book explores the chain of events linking peace with democracies. Owen emphasizes that peace is constructed by democratic ideas, and should be understood as a strong tendency built upon historically contingent perceptions and institutions. He tests his theory against ten cases drawn from over a century of U.S. diplomatic history, beginning with the Jay Treaty in 1794 and ending with the Spanish-American War in 1898. A world full of liberal democracies would not necessarily be peaceful. Were illiberal states to disappear, Owen asserts, liberal states would have difficulty identifying one another, and would have less reason to remain at peace.

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Cornell University Press

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0801486904

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Liberal Peace, Liberal War

American Politics and International Security

By: John Malloy Owen

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Confronting Political Islam

Six Lessons from the West's Past

By: John Malloy Owen

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Confronting Political Islam

Six Lessons from the West's Past

By: John Malloy Owen

Owen is generous, rational and balanced ... [H]e is astute enough to understand the vast real-world differences that block the resolution of conflict."--Publishers Weekly.

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Princeton University Press

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0691173109

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9780691173108

The Ecology of Nations

American Democracy in a Fragile World Order

By: John M. Owen

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The Ecology of Nations

American Democracy in a Fragile World Order

By: John M. Owen

How democracies compete with autocracies to bias international order in their favor--and why democracies are losing "Owen makes a powerful case that the fate of American democracy hinges on the health and welfare of other democracies."--Foreign Affairs It is well known, and much discussed, that liberal democracy is in trouble worldwide. Much of this discussion focuses on conditions within individual countries: their inequalities of wealth, political polarization, media environments, and dominant ideologies. In this book, John M. Owen IV sees the failures of democracy as failures of "ecosystem engineering." Like beavers, nesting ants, or (most intensely of all) humans, nations actively reshape their environments to make them more favorable for their own species--this, for Owen, is the true meaning of Woodrow Wilson's phrase "to make the world safe for democracy." However, liberalism has evolved in ways that are no longer conducive to its own survival; meanwhile, autocratic governments in Russia and China are actively reshaping the international environment to favor autocracy. Owen argues that the way to ensure democracy's survival in the United States is to reimagine liberalism--to view it as less about disruption and perpetual openness and more about commitment, community, and country. Liberalism must reject the "great delusion" that it can defeat autocracies everywhere and convert them into liberal democracies, yet also counter moves by China and Russia to make the world safe for autocracy.

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Yale University Press

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0300260733

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9780300260731

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Liberal Peace, Liberal War

Liberal Peace, Liberal War

Liberal Peace, Liberal War

Liberal Peace, Liberal War

Confronting Political Islam

Confronting Political Islam

The Ecology of Nations

The Ecology of Nations

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