Kant, Democracy, and History

Issue Date October 1996
Volume 7
Issue 4
Page Numbers 136-50
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About the Author

Kurt Taylor Gaubatz is assistant professor of political science at Stanford University. He is spending the 1996–97 academic year as the Peace Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. His research focuses on the intersection of democratic politics and international relations.

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