August 2005
Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War
Book
By Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder
Does the spread of democracy really contribute to international peace? Successive U. S. administrations have justified various policies intended to promote democracy not only by arguing that democracy is intrinsically good but by pointing to a wide range of research concluding that democracies rarely, if ever, go to war with one another.
