Mansfield, Edward Deering.

Economic Interdependence and International Conflict : New Perspectives on an Enduring Debate. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (367 pages) - Michigan Studies in International Political Economy Series . - Michigan Studies in International Political Economy Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Interdependence and Conflict: An Introduction -- Part 1. Theoretical Foundations -- Domestic Politics -- Pax Mercatoria and the Theory of the State -- Economic Interdependence, the Democratic State, and the Liberal Peace -- Internationalization, Coalitions, and Regional Conflict and Cooperation -- Strategic Interactions -- Assessing the Role of Trade as a Source of Costly Signals -- The Classical Liberals Were Just Lucky: A Few Thoughts about Interdependence and Peace -- Trade and Conflict: Uncertainty, Strategic Signaling, and Interstate Disputes -- Economic Interdependence, Opportunity Costs, and Peace -- Liberal Hopes with No Guarantees -- Economic Statecraft -- Violence and Disease: Trade as a Suppressor of Conflict when Suppressors Matter -- The Strategy of Economic Engagement: Theory and Practice -- Part 2. Conceptualization and Measurement of Interdependence and Conflict -- Interdependence -- Empirical Support for the Liberal Peace -- Models and Measures in Trade-Conflict Research -- Preferential Peace: Why Preferential Trading Arrangements Inhibit Interstate Conflict -- Conflict -- Trade and Conflict: Does Measurement Make a Difference? -- Measuring Conflict and Cooperation: An Assessment -- Methodological Advances -- Temporal Dynamics and Heterogeneity in the Quantitative Study of International Conflict -- Concerns with Endogeneity in Statistical Analysis: Modeling the Interdependence between Economic Ties and Conflict -- Qualitative Research on Economic Interdependence and Conflict: Overcoming Methodological Hurdles -- Computer Simulations of International Trade and Conflict -- Contributors -- Index.

A cutting-edge collection of essays on the critical question of the relationship between economic interdependence and conflict among states.

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