02357nam a2200409Ia 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020001500112020002000127020002000147040002100167035002100188050002400209082001700233100002900250245016500279260004400444300002200488490004500510504005100555505082000606533015201426650001101578650002101589650001501610650002901625650002601654655002901680700002501709710001701734830005301751856012601804999001701930ebr10135663CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||040819s2005    nyua    sb    001 0 eng d  z  2004054199  z1403982309  z1403968233 (hc)  z1403968241 (pb)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)56046874514aJZ5538b.R37 2005eb04a327.1/722221 aRasler, Karen A.,d1952-10aPuzzles of the democratic peaceh[electronic resource] :btheory, geopolitics, and the transformation of world politics /cKaren Rasler and William R. Thompson.  aNew York :bPalgrave Macmillan,cc2005.  ax, 271 p. :bill.1 aEvolutionary processes in world politics  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aPt. 1. Introduction -- 1. Developing perspective on democratic peace phenomena -- Pt. 2. Contexts in which democracies emerge : chickens or eggs? -- 2. External threat, domestic power concentration, and disputatious foreign policies -- 3. Questions of regional primacy -- Pt. 3. The relative strength of regime types in coercive contexts -- 4. Path-dependencies and foreign policy -- 5. Do rivalries trump regime type? -- 6. Do the gods of war really favor democracies? -- Pt. 4. The systemic context in which democracies compete -- 7. Do democratic-autocratic rivalries muddy the monadic waters? -- 8. Long-term structural change and regime type -- 9. Democratic alliance joining or changing system leader containment strategies? -- Pt. 5. Conclusion -- 10. History and selective transformations of world politics.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2009.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aPeace. 0aDemocratization. 0aDemocracy. 0aInternational relations. 0aWorld politicsy1989- 7aElectronic books.2local1 aThompson, William R.2 aebrary, Inc. 0aEvolutionary processes in world politics series.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10135663zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c87575d87575