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9780415990653

The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415990653

  • ISBN10:

    0415990653

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2009-12-09
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

The Democracy Advantage provides an empirically-grounded analysis of the consistently positive development track record of poor countries with democratic governments versus those with more oppressive political systems. Building on the democratic peace literature, Halperin, Siegle, and Weinstein connect the dots of how democracy and development contribute to lower levels of intrastate conflict and popular support for extremist ideologies. This analysis provides a foundation for a series of policy recommendations for how democracy can become a more central feature of U.S. and international engagement in the developing world. The Democracy Advantage is an evenly argued liberal internationalist justification for making democracy a central feature of U.S. foreign policy.

Author Biography

Morton H. Halperin is Senior Advisor to the Open Society Institute. Joseph T. Siegle is the Director of Research at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University and a Senior Research Scholar at the University of Maryland's Center for International and Strategic Studies. Michael M. Weinstein is Chief Program Officer for the Robin Hood Foundation. He also directs the Institutes for Journalists at the New York Times Company Foundation and is president and founder of WAD Financial

Table of Contents

List of Figuresp. viii
List of Tablesp. x
Forewordp. xi
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
Prologuep. x
Exposing a 50-Year-Old Mythp. 1
Setting the Record Rightp. 27
Sustaining New Democraciesp. 65
Democracy and Securityp. 90
Making Development Safe for Democracyp. 126
Democracy as the Default Optionp. 165
Bringing Democracy to the Center of Developmentp. 191
The Great Racep. 215
Appendicesp. 225
Notesp. 236
Bibliographyp. 254
Indexp. 267
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