Are New Democracies War-Prone?

Issue Date April 2007
Volume 18
Issue 2
Page Numbers 160-166
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A review of Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War by Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder.

About the Author

Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, is professor of political science at Stanford University, director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His most recent book is From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia (2018).

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