Bücher von Joanne Gowa

Challenges that belief that "democracies don't fight each other" '. This book shows that, while democracies were less likely than other states to engage each other in armed conflicts between 1945 and 1980, they were just as likely to do so as were other states before 1914.

During the Cold War, international trade closely paralleled the division of the world into two rival political-military blocs. This book examines the logic behind this linkage between alliances and trade and asks whether it applies not only after but also before World War II.