International Security articles from September 1994

International Security archives from September 1994

Kant or cant: the myth of the democratic peace.
September 22, 1994... Britain to support France proved decisive.(134) It is apparent that before World War I, the most important and consequential grand strategic decisions made by both Paris (on the Russian alliance) and London (on the entente and military...

The insignificance of the liberal peace.
September 22, 1994... Ever since Michael Doyle's 1983 essay pointed out that no liberal democracy has ever fought a war with another liberal democracy,(1) scholars have treated pacifism between democracies as "the closest thing we have to a law in international...

How liberalism produces democratic peace.
September 22, 1994... of democratic institutions. Thomas Paine claimed that the American Revolutionaries "have it in our power to begin the world all over again."(133) He may have been overreaching: the hostile relations between France and the United States in the...

The political economy of nuclear restraint.
September 22, 1994... countries in the decisionmaking process within international institutions, can deflate nationalist resentment.(137) Such an approach may help these institutions tame extreme views and foster a form of liberalism, even one attentive to moderate...

The globalization of the arms industry; the next proliferation challenge.
September 22, 1994... The globalization of the arms industry entails a significant shift away from traditional, single-country patterns of weapons production toward internationalization of the development, production, and marketing of arms. While wholly indigenous...