Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments MY THANKS go to friends and colleagues who have aided me throughout this project. Some commented on portions of the manuscript, others answered specific questions, and still others debated their views with me. My largest debt is to scholars at the University of Chicago, past and present. The University is a cauldron of scholarship and animated discussion about the core issues of world politics. James Fearon, John Mearsheimer, and Duncan Snidal all made extensive contributions. I received valuable assistance from Daniel Drezner, Charles Glaser, Jack Goldsmith, Lloyd Gruber, Robert Pape, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Daniel Verdier, Stephen Walt, and Alexander Wendt. No aspect of teaching and learning at Chicago has been more rewarding than working with graduate students, especially those at PIPES, the Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security, which I codirect. Many students who discussed this book with me are now colleagues at fellow institutions . I wish to thank Michaela Dabringhausen, Xinyuan Dai, David Edelstein, Hein Goemans, Seth Jones, Barbara Koremenos, Andrew Kydd, Keir Lieber, James Marquardt, Brian Portnoy, Alex Thompson, and Yael Wolinsky. Special thanks go to Sabastian Rosato, who read the entire manuscript and offered sharp, thoughtful criticism. This book builds on two decades of scholarship about the democratic peace, beginning with Michael Doyle’s pathbreaking work. I have benefited greatly from the work of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Christopher Gelpi, John Oneal, John Owen, James Lee Ray, Dan Reiter, R. J. Rummel, Bruce Russett, Kenneth Schultz, and Allen Stam, as well as some of their most incisive critics, especially Joanne Gowa and Christopher Layne. I also wish to thank those who commented on individual chapters or specific issues: Kenneth Abbott, Emanuel Adler, Lisa Bernstein, Charles Gochman, Judith Goldstein, Joseph Grieco, Russell Hardin, Benedict Kingsbury, Deborah Larson, Christopher Layne, Walter Mattli, Andrew Moravcsik, James Morrow, Henry Nau, John Odell, Kenneth Oye, Jon Pevehouse, Michael Schudson, Martin Sherman, Kathryn Sikkink, and Beth Simmons. I had long, useful conversations with many of them, particularly Debbie Larson. My deepest intellectual debt, aside from that owed to my colleagues at Chicago, is to Joseph Nye and Robert Keohane. I have often benefited from their guidance and, most of all, from their examples as serious scholars concerned with fundamental issues. And then there are more personal debts, to my children, Michael and Jonathan , my extended family, and my lifelong friends. I dedicate this book to my wife, Susan Bloom Lipson, with love. RELIABLE PARTNERS ...