Professor Schwartz will present evidence refuting the commonly cited Theory of Democratic Peace, which asserts that democratic nations never go to war against one another.
Wednesday, December 1, 2004
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
2408 Ackerman Union
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Professor Thomas Schwartz works in the methodology field in the Department of Political Science at UCLA. He is a leading specialist in social choice theory and mathematical political science, drawing upon reasoning from a broad range of fields including philosophy, mathematics, and economics.
For more on Professor Schwartz, visit his personal site.
His recently published essay on the Fallacy of Democratic Peace can be found on the web here.
Cost : Free and open to the public.
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Sponsor(s): Burkle Center for International Relations, Undergraduate International Relations Society, Political Science