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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Identify and Securitization in the Democratic Peace: The United States and the Divergence of Response to India and Iran's Nuclear Programs
Beteiligte:
Hayes, Jarrod
Erschienen:
Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2009
Erschienen in:
International Studies Quarterly, 53 (2009) 4, Seite 977-999
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0020-8833;
1468-2478
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Beschreibung:
While almost a decade old, Ted Hopf's observation that the democratic peace is an observation in search of a theory still holds validity. In particular, the mechanisms behind the democratic peace are poorly inderstood, making it difficult for scholars to provide a compelling explanation. Underappreciated in the existing work is the role of identity and the importance this has for driving the democratic peace. With a focus on developing a dyadic democratic peace mechanism and using a case study appraoch, this paper utilizes the Copenhagen Schoold's securitization framework to examine how identity plays out in the US response to the Indian and Iranian nuclear programs. It finds that in fact identity does play an important role in how security policy is constructed. In policy terms, if the democratic peace does rely on identity to trigger the constraining norms that limit the escalation of conflict to violence, it is unlikely the democratic peace can be spread by force and it is possible that states nominally democratic can be excluded from the community of democracies if their behavior or significant other aspects of their perveived identity are at variance with the accepted democratic identity standard.