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"The Civilization of Clashes": Misapplying the Democratic Peace in the Middle East
Ist Teil von
Political science quarterly, 2007-12, Vol.122 (4), p.533-554
Ort / Verlag
Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Ish-Shalom demonstrates the role of the structural theories of the democratic peace thesis in generating the neoconservative grand strategy. These are theories that try to explain the absence (or near absence) of war between democracies by pointing to the structural attributes of democracies, such as checks and balances, division of powers, and periodic elections. He argues that those theories played--and still play--multiple and crucial roles in shaping and in marketing the neoconservative agenda of promoting democracy abroad. The democratic peace thesis helped neoconservatives overcome their post-Cold War identity crisis and the demise of their old archenemy, communism. The strategic program of promoting democracy revived neoconservatism and gave it new coherence and purpose.