Reviewing 40 years of hard, empirical data, from China and India to Chile and Iraq, the authors show that poor democracies beat poor autocracies in every economic measure. In addition, the authors offer dramatic evidence that democracies are less likely to fight each other and that terrorists more often find safe haven in authoritarian countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.
In this book, the authors review U.S. and international responses to self-determination claims during and after the Cold War. Arguing that outdated Cold War perspectives continue to influence the current policies of the United States and the international community toward self-determination movements, they provide a framework for evaluating the nature and legitimacy of self-determination moveme…