Democratic Peace Territorial Conflict Twentieth Century 82 Paul K… 9780521805087

The Democratic Peace and Territorial Conflict in the Twentieth CenturyAuthor(s): Paul K. Huth, Todd L. Allee\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521805087, 978-0521805087\nSynopsis\nThis book presents a systematic reassessment of the theoretical and empirical foundations of the democratic peace literature. Three distinct theoretical models of how domestic political institutions shape the foreign policy choices of state leaders are developed and Huth and Allee then test hypotheses from each model against an original data set of 348 territorial disputes from [tel]. Each territorial dispute is divided into three separate but related phases for empirical analysis: Challenge the Status Quo Stage, Negotiation Stage and Military Escalation Stage. Their statistical results provide strong support for the importance of democratic accountability and norms in shaping decisions to negotiate and settle dispute.