Forged Through Fire: War, Peace, and the Democratic Bargain
Frances McCall Rosenbluth, John Ferejohn
ISBN: | 9781631491610 |
Publisher: | Liveright |
Published: | 6 December, 2016 |
Format: | eBook |
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Forged Through Fire: War, Peace, and the Democratic Bargain
Frances McCall Rosenbluth, John Ferejohn
Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. But is democracy, in fact, dependent on war to survive? Having spent their celebrated careers exploring this provocative question, John Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth trace the surprising ways in which governments have mobilized armies since antiquity, discovering that our modern form of democracy not only evolved in a brutally competitive environment but also quickly disintegrated when the powerful elit
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