Democratic Wars

Part I. Democracies and War: Theoretical Challenge and Empirical Findings

1. Introduction: the Theoretical Challenge of Democratic Wars
Lothar Brock, Anna Geis, Harald Müller

2. Democratic Wars and Military Interventions, 1946–2002: the Monadic Level Reconsidered
Sven Chojnacki

Part II. Democratic Wars as a Challenge to International Relations Theory

3. Democratic Peace: Many Data, Little Explanation?
Harald Müller, Jonas Wolff

4. Democratic Peace — Democratic War: Three Reasons Why Democracies Are War-prone
Christopher Daase

5. Triangulating War: the Use of Force by Democracies as a Variant of Democratic Peace
Lothar Brock

Part III. Democracy, Peace and War: Perspectives from Political and Sociological Theory

6. On Democratic War Theory
Nicholas Rengger

7. Spotting the ‘Enemy’? Democracies and the Challenge of the ‘Other’
Anna Geis

8. Sameness and Distinction: Understanding Democratic Peace in a Bourdieusian Perspective
Catherine Götze

Part IV. Conclusions

9. The Case for a New Research Agenda: Explaining Democratic Wars
Lothar Brock, Anna Geis, Harald Müller

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Diplomacy, Military and Defence Studies, Political Science, Globalization