In previous empirical work, the basis for the proposition that democratic countries do not fight each other has been a single equation regression of hostility on democracy and other variables. This approach is misleading for two reasons. First, peace and democracy are part of a simultaneous...

The Political Economy of War and Peace brings insights into the political and economic forces that shape the international, sub-national and ethnic conflicts of the present post-Cold War era. The larger vision is that war must be studied as a syndrome of historical events that occur as a...