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'Hollow promises?' Critical materialism and the contradictions of the Democratic Peace
Authors
Amin
Angell
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Arrighi
Barkawi
Berghahn
Brenner
Brown
Bueno de Mesquita
Chase-Dunn
Chomsky
Diamond
Doyle
Doyle
Elman
Forsythe
Frank
Fukuyama
Gills
Gray
John MacMillan
Kant
Lenin
Lippit
MacMillan
Merkel
Neocleous
O'Donnell
Owen
Przeworski
Reid
Rosecrance
Rueschemeyer
Rummel
Russett
Russett
Schmitz
Schneider
Wallerstein
Wallerstein
Weede
Publication date
31 October 2012
Publisher
'Cambridge University Press (CUP)'
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© Cambridge University PressThe Democratic Peace research programme explicitly and implicitly presents its claims in terms of their potential to underpin a universal world peace. Yet whilst the Democratic Peace appears robust in its geographical heartlands it appears weaker at the edges of the democratic world, where the spread of democracy and the depth of democratic political development is often limited and where historically many of the purported exceptions to the Democratic Peace are found. Whereas Democratic Peace scholarship has tended to overlook or downplay these phenomena, from a critical materialist perspective they are indicative of a fundamental contradiction within the Democratic Peace whereby its universalistic aspirations are thwarted by its material grounding in a hierarchical capitalist world economy. This, in turn, raises the question of whether liberal arguments for a universal Democratic Peace are in fact hollow promises. The article explores these concerns and argues that those interested in democracy and peace should pay more attention to the critical materialist tradition, which in the discussion below is represented principally by the world-system approach
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