The Capitalist Peace

  1. Erik Gartzke

Article first published online: 4 JAN 2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2007.00244.x

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American Journal of Political Science

American Journal of Political Science

Volume 51, Issue 1, pages 166–191, January 2007

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Gartzke, E. (2007), The Capitalist Peace. American Journal of Political Science, 51: 166–191. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2007.00244.x

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  1. Columbia University

*Erik Gartzke is associate professor of political science and a member of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. Email: gartzke@columbia.edu. Web: http://www.columbia.edu/~eg589/. Comments are welcome and appreciated.

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  1. Issue published online: 4 JAN 2007
  2. Article first published online: 4 JAN 2007

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It is widely accepted that democracies are less conflict prone, if only with other democracies. Debate persists, however, about the causes underlying liberal peace. This article offers a contrarian account based on liberal political economy. Economic development, free markets, and similar interstate interests all anticipate a lessening of militarized disputes or wars. This “capitalist peace” also accounts for the effect commonly attributed to regime type in standard statistical tests of the democratic peace.

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