Invisible Hand of Peace Capitalism, the War Machine, and International Relations Theory

Name: Invisible Hand of Peace Capitalism, the War Machine, and International Relations Theory
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ISBN: 9780521744126

ISBN-10: 0521744121

ISBN-13: 9780521744126

Edition: 2009

Authors: Patrick J. McDonald

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The Invisible Hand of Peace shows that the domestic institutions associated with capitalism, namely private property and competitive market structures, have promoted peace between states over the past two centuries. It employs a wide range of historical and statistical evidence to illustrate both the broad applicability of these claims and their capacity to generate new explanations of critical historical events, such as the emergence of the Anglo-American friendship at the end of the nineteenth century, the outbreak of World War I, and the evolution of the recent conflict across the Taiwan Straits. By showing that this capitalist peace has historically been stronger than the peace among…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/2/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 354
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Patrick J. McDonald is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. He received a Ph.D. in political science from the Ohio State University in 2002. He then served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania until 2004. Professor McDonald's research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Washington Quarterly, and World Politics.



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Acknowledgments



American Grand Strategy and the Liberal Peace



Liberal International Relations Theory on War



Releasing the Invisible Hand



Liberal Economic Institutions and Peace in the Twentieth Century



Free Trade and Peace in the First Era of Globalization



From Rivalry to Friendship



The Achilles' Heel of Liberal International Relations Theory?



Peace Across the Taiwan Strait?



The Invisible Hand or the Ballot Box?



Capitalism and America's Peaceful Market Power


References


Index