Civil-military dynamics, democracy, and international conflict : a new quest for international peace

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Civil-military dynamics, democracy, and international conflict : a new quest for international peace

Seung-Whan Choi and Patrick James

(Advances in foreign policy analysis)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-192) and index

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Addressing decision-making over interstate disputes and the democratic peace thesis, Choi and James build an interactive foreign policy decision-making model with a special emphasis on civil-military relations, conscription, diplomatic channels and media openness. Each is significant in explaining decisions over dispute involvement. The temporal scope is broad while the geographic scope is global. The result is sophisticated analysis of the causes of conflict and factors that can ameliorate it, and a generalizable approach to the study of foreign relations. The findings that media openness contributes to peaceful resolution of disputes, that the greater the influence of the military the more likely for their to be interstate disputes, that conscription is likely to have the same effect, and that increases in diplomatic interaction correlate with increased conflict are sure to generate debate.

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Introduction: Quadrangulating the Peace Democracy, Peace and Other Things Foreign Policy Decision-Making: A Process Model Research Design: A Look Beyond the Triangular Peace Accounting for Militarized Interstate Disputes Accounting for Militarized Interstate Dispute-Related Casualties Is the Pen Mightier Than the Sword? Conclusions and Policy Implications Appendices

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