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Domestic Politics and the Road to War: Political Decay, Shifting Ruling Strategies, and Crisis Decision Making in Great Power Conflicts Since 1815 |
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This paper examines and extends what has been, over the past decade and half, one of the most vibrant areas of theoretical and empirical research in IR theory--that on how domestic politics influences foreign policy and, in turn, shapes international relations. It begins by arguing that the dominant research programs in this area--those on the democratic peace and democratization and war--offer explanations of war and peace that are overly deterministic and yet historically incomplete. Drawingupon an alternative "statist" literature (e.g., hitherto diverse works by Levy, Snyder, Rosecrance and Stein, and Vasquez; as reviewed in Hagan, 1994) it offers a theoretical integration that argues that international stability collapses as the result of a sequence of three pivotal domestic events (1) the rise of domestic opposition challenging established elites and policies, (2) the adoption of diversionary and nationalistic ruling strategies by political elites, and (3) unintended internal political complications in the authorization of crisis decisions to go to war. The development of this framework is based on a newly constructed data on Great Power oppositions and leaders since 1815. They analysis presented here provides a complete set of cases of powers that went to war--and ones that did not--in the Crimean War, the Wars for Italian and German Unification, World War I, and World War II. Taken together, this framework and analysis point to an inherently more complex and contingent relationship between domestic politics and international stability in the modern nation state system. |
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Name: International Studies Association URL: http://www.isanet.org
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| Hagan, Joe. "Domestic Politics and the Road to War: Political Decay, Shifting Ruling Strategies, and Crisis Decision Making in Great Power Conflicts Since 1815" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA, Mar 22, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p98704_index.html> |
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| Hagan, J. D. , 2006-03-22 "Domestic Politics and the Road to War: Political Decay, Shifting Ruling Strategies, and Crisis Decision Making in Great Power Conflicts Since 1815" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p98704_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper examines and extends what has been, over the past decade and half, one of the most vibrant areas of theoretical and empirical research in IR theory--that on how domestic politics influences foreign policy and, in turn, shapes international relations. It begins by arguing that the dominant research programs in this area--those on the democratic peace and democratization and war--offer explanations of war and peace that are overly deterministic and yet historically incomplete. Drawingupon an alternative "statist" literature (e.g., hitherto diverse works by Levy, Snyder, Rosecrance and Stein, and Vasquez; as reviewed in Hagan, 1994) it offers a theoretical integration that argues that international stability collapses as the result of a sequence of three pivotal domestic events (1) the rise of domestic opposition challenging established elites and policies, (2) the adoption of diversionary and nationalistic ruling strategies by political elites, and (3) unintended internal political complications in the authorization of crisis decisions to go to war. The development of this framework is based on a newly constructed data on Great Power oppositions and leaders since 1815. They analysis presented here provides a complete set of cases of powers that went to war--and ones that did not--in the Crimean War, the Wars for Italian and German Unification, World War I, and World War II. Taken together, this framework and analysis point to an inherently more complex and contingent relationship between domestic politics and international stability in the modern nation state system. |
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