Format:
1 online resource (206 pages)
ISBN:
9781139554527
Content:
Uses an innovative theory of state development to explain patterns of international conflict and democracy in the world over time.
Content:
Cover -- The Territorial Peace -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Issues raised in this book -- 1.3 Plan of the book -- PART I International borders -- 2 Territorial issues and international conflict -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Territorial issues, disputes, and wars -- 2.2.1 Symbolic land as motivation for conflict -- 2.2.2 Strategic territories, resources, and conflict -- 2.3 Territorial issues and the steps to war -- 2.4 Regime type, dyadic conflict and cooperation, and territorial issues -- 2.5 When are territorial issues salient? -- 2.5.1 Territorial disputes -- 2.5.2 Territorial claims and territorial settlements -- 2.5.3 Territorial rivalries -- 2.5.4 Territorial threats -- 2.6 Conclusions -- 3 Individual, state, and territorial issues -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Territorial issues and the individual -- 3.2.1 Land and economic well-being -- 3.2.2 Attachments to land -- 3.2.3 In-group definition -- 3.2.4 Issue salience and diversionary conflict -- 3.3 Territorial issues and the state -- 3.3.1 The creation of standing armies -- 3.3.2 Repressive bargaining between elites and poor -- 3.3.3 The centralization of political power -- 3.4 Territorial issues and democracy -- 3.4.1 Decentralization among non-democracies -- 3.4.2 Centralization among democracies -- 3.4.3 Decentralization and military power -- 3.5 Territorial issues and international conflict -- 3.5.1 Domestic politics, difficult negotiations, and recurrent conflict -- 3.5.2 Peaceful borders and conflict choice -- 3.5.3 Implications for regime-based models of conflict -- 3.6 Conclusions -- Part II State development -- 4 Territorial threats and political behavior -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Territorial threat and political tolerance -- 4.2.1 In-groups and out-groups.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107016217
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107016217
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=989179
