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War-Proneness, War-Weariness, and Regime Type: 1816-1980

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  • David Garnham

    (Department of Political Science, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

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Previous empirical research has demonstrated that war-weariness is not a universal characteristic of na tion-state behaviour. But a scholarly consensus agrees, for reasons originally advanced by Kant, that war-weariness is more applicable to democratic than to nondemocratic states. This is true despite evi dence that democracies are not more peaceful than autocracies — with the notable exception that war fare virtually never occurs between democracies. Empirical analyses of war (interstate and extrasy stemic) and dispute data from the Correlates of War Project reveal no statistically significant (p

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  • David Garnham, 1986. "War-Proneness, War-Weariness, and Regime Type: 1816-1980," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 23(3), pages 279-289, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:joupea:v:23:y:1986:i:3:p:279-289
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