Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Review of Democracy, Peace, and Other Things -- The Democratic Peace and Its Critics -- The Recent Evolution and Prospects of the Democratic Peace -- 3 A New Look at International Conflict and Peace: Four Factors to Consider -- Intuition, or, How does It Work? -- A Flow Chart of the Foreign Policy Decision-Making Process Model -- Two Historical Exemplars -- Where To? -- 4 Research Design -- Hypotheses -- Measurement and Data -- Building Logit and Neural Network Models -- 5 Accounting for Militarized Interstate Disputes -- Logistic Regression Analysis -- Neural Network Analysis -- A Case Study: Bush Administration Diplomacy and the North Korean Nuclear Program -- 6 Accounting for Fatal Militarized Interstate Disputes -- Logistic Regression Analysis -- Neural Network Analysis -- 7 A Key Issue of Measurement: Military Expenditure and Civil-Military Relations -- Measuring Civil-Military Relations in Two Steps -- Empirical Implications: Do Civil-Military Relations Still Matter? -- 8 A Closer Look at Media Openness: From Institutional Democracy to Media Openness? -- Media Openness, Democracy, and Interstate Disputes -- Testing the Role of Media Openness -- Empirical Implications: The Power of Media Openness -- 9 The Quest for Peace -- Findings -- Policy Implications -- Some Final Thoughts -- 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.