Do liberal ties pacify? A study of the Cod Wars
The Cod Wars, three militarized interstate disputes between the UK and Iceland (1958–1961, 1972–1973, 1975–1976), have often been presented as an egregious exception to the liberal peace. There are, however, few comprehensive analyses of the liberal dimensions of the Cod Wars. This article comprehen...
| Published in: | Cooperation and Conflict |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications
2017
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010836717712293 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0010836717712293 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0010836717712293 |
| Summary: | The Cod Wars, three militarized interstate disputes between the UK and Iceland (1958–1961, 1972–1973, 1975–1976), have often been presented as an egregious exception to the liberal peace. There are, however, few comprehensive analyses of the liberal dimensions of the Cod Wars. This article comprehensively analyses the ways in which each of the Cod Wars is consistent or inconsistent with the liberal peace. I find that while the supposedly pacifying factors of the liberal peace – democracy, trade and institutional ties – effectively made the disputes more contentious, they also ensured that escalation to actual war was impossible. |
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