When two countries are fully democratic, that is they score high on the polity scale, disputes between them decrease by 50%. But when one member of a country pair was either a low scoring democracy or a full autocracy, it doubled the chance of a quarrel. Russett and o'neil found that for every pair of at risk nations, when they entered, the amount of trade as a proportion of g d p decreased.
An analysis of Russia's war on Ukraine. Will sanctions work?
This episode is a reading from Michael Shermer’s post on Substack entitled: “Putin’s Problem: The outlawry of war has forced tyrants to concoct excuses for invading other countries. How should we respond? Evidence shows that outcasting in the form of economic sanctions beats armed conflict”
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