-Bruce Buena de Mesquita, James D. Morrow, Randolph M. Siverson, and Alastair Smith. 1999. An Institutional Explanation of the Democratic Peace. American Political Science Review 93 (4):791-807.
-James D. Fearon. 1994. Domestic PoliticalAudiences and the Escalation of International Disputes. American Political Science Review 88(3): 577-592.
-Jessica L. Weeks. 2012. Strongmen and Straw Men: Authoritarian Regimes and the Initiation of International Conflict. American Political Science Review 106(2): 326-347.
You can find these articles buy copy and pasting in your search engine and within the first 5 websites it shoud be a pdf
Please read these articles and ask questions in regards to what you just read Your questions should probe. It may also help if you provide some context for questions. Perhaps link it to some readings or a current event. Please ask 4- 5 questions, no citiations and no reference page. Please make sure each question makes sense based on what you have read.
Examples on how question should be:
- Gartzke quotes another theorist in saying that, The more freedom that individuals have in a state, the less the state engages in foreign violence. Do you agree and if so, what do you feel might be the correlation between individual freedom and international peace?
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MacMillan states that a liberal democratic peace system in a hierarchal capitalist world-system generates tensions, which then generate conflict and violence, specifically claiming that this is an “exception” to democratic peace. Others say democracies rarely have conflict and wars, which goes against the core values. Why does MacMillan believe this is an exception to democratic peace?
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