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Media Openness, Democracy and Militarized Interstate Disputes

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  • CHOI, SEUNG-WHAN
  • JAMES, PATRICK

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Mass media play a central role in political life. Media not only transfer information; they also facilitate communication. These functions may ameliorate conflict, crisis and war in world politics. Accordingly, this study looks into the impact of media openness on international conflict. Based on a cross-sectional, time-series dataset for interstate dyads from 1950 to 1992, logistic regression analysis shows that an indicator of media openness has a strong dampening effect on Militarized Interstate Disputes (MIDs) and fatal MIDs. Moreover, this connection is significant even in the presence of a composite indicator of democracy (that measures its institutional attributes using the Polity data), economic interdependence and joint membership in international organizations. The results suggest that the successful neo-Kantian triad is complemented effectively by the presence of media openness.

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  • Choi, Seung-Whan & James, Patrick, 2007. "Media Openness, Democracy and Militarized Interstate Disputes," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 37(1), pages 23-46, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:37:y:2007:i:01:p:23-46_00
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    1. Jaekwon Cha & O. Fiona Yap, 2020. "Challenging the East Asian Development Model: Evidence from South Korea," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 32(1), pages 220-250, January.
    2. Seung-Whan Choi, 2010. "Beyond Kantian Liberalism," Conflict Management and Peace Science, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 27(3), pages 272-295, July.
    3. Seung-Whan Choi, 2010. "Legislative Constraints: A Path to Peace?," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 54(3), pages 438-470, June.
    4. Evgeniia Iakhnis & Patrick James, 2021. "Near crises in world politics: A new dataset," Conflict Management and Peace Science, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 38(2), pages 224-243, March.
    5. Sam R. Bell, 2013. "What you don’t know can hurt you: Information, external transparency, and interstate conflict, 1982–1999," Conflict Management and Peace Science, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 30(5), pages 452-468, November.

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