Peace and Conflict Studies - Spring 2014

Peace and Conflict Studies Volume 21, Number 1 97 Democratization in the developing world does not seem to bring international peace unless it is coupled with economic development. A major implication of this study for future research is that there seems to be some qualitative differences between developing countries and the developed ones and it seems these differences matter so far as involvement in militarized interstate disputes are concerned. There is no reason to not expect that the qualitative differences between the developing and the developed world would be relevant to other research programs in the field of international conflicts, such as the purported peaceful effects of international trade or international organizations. Scholars of international conflict are advised to be more cautious in pooling all dyads and making universal claims. References Ayoob, M. (1995). The third world security predicament . Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. Barkawi, T. & Laffey, M. (1999). The imperial peace: Democracy, force, and globalization. European Journal of International Relations , 5 (4), 403-434. Beck, N., Katz, J. N., & Tucker, R. (1998). Taking time seriously: Time-series-cross- sectional analysis with a binary dependent variable. American Journal of Political Science , 42 (4), 1260-88. Bilgin, P., & Morton, A. (2002). Historicising representations of ‘failed states’: Beyond the cold war annexation of the social sciences? Third World Quarterly , 23 (1), 55-80. Bueno de Mesquita, B., Morrow, J. D., Siverson, R. M., & Smith, A. (1999). An institutional explanation of the democratic peace. American Political Science Review , 93 (4), 791- 807. Choi, S. W. (2011). Re-evaluating capitalist and democratic peace models. International Studies Quarterly , 55 (3), 759–769. Clapham, C. (1999). Sovereignty and the Third World state. Political Studies , 47 (3), 522- 537. Dafoe, A. (2011). Statistical critiques of the democratic peace: Caveat emptor. American Journal of Political Science , 55 (2), 247-62. Diehl, P. F. & Goertz, G. (2001). War and peace in international rivalry . Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Dixon, W. J. (1993). Democracy and the management of international conflict. Journal of Conflict Resolution , 37 (1), 42-68. Elkins, Z. (2000). Gradations of democracy? Empirical tests of alternative conceptualizations. American Journal of Political Science , 44 (2), 287-294. Escude, C. (1998). An introduction to peripheral realism and its implications for the interstate system. In S. Neuman (Ed.), International relations theory and the third world (pp. 55-76). New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press. Farber, H. S., & Gowa, J. (1995). Polities and peace. International Security , 20 (2), 123-146. Gartzke, E., & Hewitt, J. J. (2010). International crises and the capitalist peace. International Interactions , 36 (2), 115-145.