Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Introduction -- One: Developing Perspective on Democratic Peace Phenomena -- Part Two: Contexts in Which Democracies Emerge: Chickens or Eggs? -- Two: External Threat, Domestic Power Concentration, and Disputatious Foreign Policies -- Three: Questions of Regional Primacy -- Part Three: The Relative Strength of Regime Types in Coercive Contexts -- Four: Path-Dependencies and Foreign Policy -- Five: Do Rivalries Trump Regime Type? -- Six: Do the Gods of War Really Favor Democracies? -- Part Four: The Systemic Context in Which Democracies Compete -- Seven: Do Democratic-Autocratic Rivalries Muddy the Monadic Waters? -- Eight: Long-Term Structural Change and Regime Type -- Nine: Democratic Alliance Joining or Changing System Leader Containment Strategies? -- Part Five: Conclusion -- Ten: History and Selective Transformations of World Politics -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.