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How Democracies Keep the Peace: Contextual Factors That Influence Conflict Management Strategies
American Political Science Association Conference (Boston, Massachusetts)
2008
DOI: 10.17077/cv9t-0o16
Abstract
Some studies find that democratic states are more amenable to third party forms of conflict management, while other studies indicate that democracies are able to resolve contentious issues on their own through bilateral negotiations. Using data from the Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) Project, the authors investigate peaceful and militarized conflict management strategies that democratic states employ to resolve contentious issues. Theoretically, the authors focus on how militarized conflict history, relative capabilities, and issue salience influence the tools of conflict management that democratic states employ. Empirical analyses suggest that democratic dyads employ bilateral negotiations more often to resolve contentious issues when the issue has been militarized previously, when the issue is more salient, and when they are facing an equal adversary. Democratic dyads seek out non-binding third party settlement more frequently in situations of power preponderance than non-democratic dyads, although binding forms of third party settlement occur most often in relatively equal democratic dyads. Pairs of democracies are more likely to employ militarized conflict management strategies when they have resorted to force over the issue previously, when the issue is highly salient, and when they are evenly matched.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- How Democracies Keep the Peace: Contextual Factors That Influence Conflict Management Strategies
- Creators
- Glynn Ellis - Georgia Southern UniversitySara McLaughlin Mitchell - University of IowaBrandon C Prins - University of Tennessee
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
- Conference
- American Political Science Association Conference (Boston, Massachusetts)
- DOI
- 10.17077/cv9t-0o16
- Number of pages
- 33 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2008 Glynn Ellis, Sara Mitchell and Brandon C. Prins
- Comment
- We thank Paul Hensel and John Vasquez for comments on a previous version of the paper.
- Language
- English
- Date copyrighted
- 2008
- Date presented
- 08/2008
- Academic Unit
- Political Science; Public Policy Center (Archive); Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9983557684802771
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