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Three Pillars of the Liberal Peace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2005

MICHAEL W. DOYLE
MICHAEL W. DOYLE
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Columbia University
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Abstract

Sebastian Rosato (2003) finds the logic of the “democratic peace” flawed in his “The Flawed Logic of Democratic Peace Theory,” and he cites my work and other studies as examples of the flawed logic. Some of the logic he describes is flawed, and it may characterize some of the literature in the wide field of “democratic peace,” but it is not the logic underlying the core of liberal peace theory. Indeed, the persuasive core of the logic underlying the theory of liberal democratic peace is missing from Rosato's account. Republican representation, an ideological commitment to fundamental human rights, and transnational interdependence are the three pillars of the explanation. The logic underlying the peace among liberal states rests on a simple and straightforward proposition that connects those three causal mechanisms as they operate together and only together, and not separately as Sebastian Rosato claims.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 99 , Issue 3 , August 2005 , pp. 463 - 466
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© 2005 by the American Political Science Association

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