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Title
Democratic peace as a historical phenomenon
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Abstract
This essay discusses the democratic peace as a historical phenomenon. The fact of democratic peace, as it is being described and accounted for by democratic peace theory, it first argues, is essentially a historical finding. It depends on the interpretation of past events and emerges from a systematic investigation of these events. But as transpires from the four books that the essay reviews, democratic peace is more than an historical finding. Democratic peace is an historical phenomenon too: a historically situated way of imagining peace that arose in a particular time, in particular historical circumstances, and that shaped up into tangible international practices in the way that it did because it arose in those circumstances. The absence of war among democracies describes the historical finding, but it does not suffice as a description of the democratic peace as a historical phenomenon.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of historical sociology. - Oxford
Publication
Hoboken : Wiley , 2018
ISSN
0952-1909
DOI
10.1111/JOHS.12158
Volume/pages
31 :1 (2018) , p. E66-E77
ISI
000429562500005
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UAntwerpen
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Project info
The cultural practice of democratic peace
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Creation 14.02.2018
Last edited 09.10.2023
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