Puzzles of the democratic peace [electronic resource] : theory, geopolitics, and the transformation of world politics / Karen Rasler and William R. Thompson.

Pt. 1. Introduction
1. Developing perspective on democratic peace phenomena
Pt. 2. Contexts in which democracies emerge : chickens or eggs?
2. External threat, domestic power concentration, and disputatious foreign policies
3. Questions of regional primacy
Pt. 3. The relative strength of regime types in coercive contexts
4. Path-dependencies and foreign policy
5. Do rivalries trump regime type?
6. Do the gods of war really favor democracies?
Pt. 4. The systemic context in which democracies compete
7. Do democratic-autocratic rivalries muddy the monadic waters?
8. Long-term structural change and regime type
9. Democratic alliance joining or changing system leader containment strategies?
Pt. 5. Conclusion
10. History and selective transformations of world politics.