The Death of the Democratic Advantage?

Abstract International relations scholarship has posited multiple pathways through which democracies accrue advantages in world politics. These range from enhanced warfighting capabilities to sovereign borrowing capacity to more constructive cooperation with like-minded regimes. A series of crises o...

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Published in:International Studies Review 2022-05, Vol.24 (2)
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