The territorial peace : borders, state development, and international conflict / Douglas M. Gibler.
"There is continued discussion in international relations surrounding the existence (or not) of the 'democratic peace' - the idea that democracies do not fight each other. This book argues that threats to homeland territories force centralization within the state, for three reasons. F...
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Table of Contents:
- 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 power3.4 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-groups4.2.2 Tolerance across countries; 4.2.3 Expectations; 4.3 Sample and variable descriptions; 4.3.1 Dependent variable; 4.3.2 Independent variables; Macro-level variables; Norms; Micro-level variables; 4.4 Predicting political tolerance; Domestic structures; 4.5 Some caveats, with a note on other political behaviors; 4.6 Conclusions; 5 Territorial threats, armies, and state repression; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The quest for preparedness; 5.2.1 Leader incentives; 5.2.2 The security of the individual; 5.3 External threat, standing armies, and repression.
- 5.3.1 Specifying the relationship5.4 The effects of territorial threat on army size; 5.4.1 Military size as a resource for repression; 5.5 Predicting state repression; 5.6 Conclusions; 6 Territorial threats and domestic institutions; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 External conflict and the domestic opposition; 6.2.1 Rally effects and leader popularity in democracies; 6.2.2 Opposition strategies; 6.2.3 Rallying behind an unelected leader; 6.3 Centralizing political power; 6.4 Identifying opposition party effects; 6.4.1 Territorial threat; 6.4.2 General threat and other controls; 6.4.3 Results.