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Kahhat, Farid. "Balance of Power, Democracy, and Foreign Policy in South America's Southern Cone" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p71084_index.html>

Kahhat, F. , 2005-03-05 "Balance of Power, Democracy, and Foreign Policy in South America's Southern Cone" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p71084_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to assess the merits of two contending theories (balance of power and democratic peace) on the relationship between regime type (e.g., democratic or authoritarian) and foreign policy orientation (i.e., relative proneness towards conflict and cooperation) for the case of South America's Southern Cone between 1970 and 1995. Since it can be considered a distinctive sub-system within international politics, South America's Southern Cone provides a particularly suitable testing ground for balance of power theory. And since in the last few decades it has had consistent patterns of regime change (the last one of which Democratic Peace theorists characterize as a transition from authoritarian rule to democracy), it seems to provide a suitable testing ground for Democratic Peace theory. During the period under scrutiny, the only two instances of military conflict within the Southern Cone took place between countries with democratically elected governments (Ecuador and Peru in 1981 and 1995). I argue that these exceptions are significant because they indicate a problem with our understanding of these regimes, rather than with Democratic Peace theory: namely, that (contrary to what some of the theory's advocates claim) they are below the democratic threshold necessary for the application of the theory. This in turn tends to suggest that many attempts to test the theory beyond the industrialized democracies in the post-war era may be conceptually flawed.

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