Beschreibung:
This book explores the question of the extent to which Democratic Peace can provide a solution for conflict and constitute a guide to peaceful co-existence and dispute settlement in today’s world and whether a concert of powers or security communities pose alternatives. The significance of international organizations and gender equality are also discussed within this context.
Democracies are extremely unlikely to wage war against other democracies – this main proposition of the Democratic Peace theory constitutes the starting point for this volume. Chapters authored by experts from different parts of the world explore the concept of Democratic Peace in greater depth in relation to selected issue areas and in comparison to other concepts such as security communities or concerts of powers. The role and significance of international organizations and gender equality, for instance, are discussed and assessed in this context. The objective guiding this exercise is to give an answer to the question as to whether Democratic Peace and the other two concepts – i.e. security communities and concerts of powers – can provide a solution to today’s security challenges and constitute a guide to peaceful co-existence and conflict settlement. So, the chapters discuss intellectual frameworks at some length, at the same time, reflecting on potential inferences for the outside world and highlighting associated challenges, limits, or even possible adverse implications.
1Democracy and the Quest for Peace and Security
Introduction
Heinz Gärtner & Hakan Akbulut
2What Is the Democratic Peace?
Bruce Russett
3Security Communities
Adrian Hyde-Price
4What Use Is “Democratic Peace” in the Present Period of Rapid Power Change?
Harald Müller
5Peace and Peace Orders: Augustinian Foundations in Hobbesian and Kantian Receptions
Andrej Zwitter
6Democratization, Great Power Cooperation, and International Organizations: The OSCE and the Democratic Peace
P. Terrence Hopmann
7Challenging the European Union’s Liberal Peace Model in the Mediterranean
Cengiz Günay
8Gender, Democracy and Peace: An Ambivalent Triangle?
Simone Wisotzki
9The Wars Militaries Fight for Democracy
Jan Willem Honig
10Reaching Out for Perpetual, Just, and Comprehensive Peace
Conclusion
Heinz Gärtner & Hakan Akbulut