TY - JOUR
T1 - Military intervention and the democratic peace
AU - Kegley, Charles W.
AU - Hermann, Margaret G.
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We wish to thank Shannon Lindsey Blanton for her assistance in retrieving and coding the data sets analyzed here, and Francis A. Beer, Steve Chan, Sten Rynning, Harvey Starr, Michael Don Ward and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper. This project was supported in part by a grant (019-94S) from the United States Institute of Peace. The opinions, findings, and conclusions, however, expressed in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Institute of Peace.
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PY - 1995/2
Y1 - 1995/2
N2 - The finding generated by numerous empirical investigations that democracies do not wage war against one another has inspired hope that the democratic “pacific union” envisioned by Immanuel Kant and Woodrow Wilson might be created in the late 1990s as democracy spreads worldwide. This paper examines democracies' use of overt military intervention, exploring if the democratic peace applies to' small-scale as well as large-scale war. The research uncovers IS instances in which free democratic states have moved their regular troops into the territory of other free states and 32 instances of free states intervening into partly free states between 1974 and 1988. Focusing on these anomalous cases, the paper assesses the extent to which this interventionist activity comprises a potential ”danger zone in the democratic peace”, and a concludes with a discussion of the role that interventionism is likely to play in a democratic twentieth-century peace.
AB - The finding generated by numerous empirical investigations that democracies do not wage war against one another has inspired hope that the democratic “pacific union” envisioned by Immanuel Kant and Woodrow Wilson might be created in the late 1990s as democracy spreads worldwide. This paper examines democracies' use of overt military intervention, exploring if the democratic peace applies to' small-scale as well as large-scale war. The research uncovers IS instances in which free democratic states have moved their regular troops into the territory of other free states and 32 instances of free states intervening into partly free states between 1974 and 1988. Focusing on these anomalous cases, the paper assesses the extent to which this interventionist activity comprises a potential ”danger zone in the democratic peace”, and a concludes with a discussion of the role that interventionism is likely to play in a democratic twentieth-century peace.
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U2 - 10.1080/03050629508434857
DO - 10.1080/03050629508434857
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AN - SCOPUS:0002866367
VL - 21
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - International Interactions
JF - International Interactions
SN - 0305-0629
IS - 1
ER -