Dr. Peter Graeff is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His research interests include positive and negative social capital, statistics/methodology, conflict and military sociology. Previous publications include Why Nations Arm in Age of Globalization, Comparative Sociology, 2 (4), 2003, (with Guido Mehlkop). Dr. Guido Mehlkop is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Dresden University of Technology, Germany. His research interests include the institutional and cultural determinants of economic growth and income inequality; the economic theory of conflict and crime, and military sociology.

• 1. Introduction 2. Thucydides, Ancient Greece and the Democratic Peace 3. What Is The Democratic Peace And Why Pursue It? 4. Production, Prosperity, Preferences and Peace 5. Peace by Interdemocratic Institutions? A Theoretical Framework 6. Rewards of Freedom: Democracy and the Inflow of Foreign Direct Investment, 1984– 7. Is the IMF right? How robust is the relationship between market-oriented institutions and policies and economic growth? 8. Economic Freedom, Wealth and Corruption: Analyzing their empirical connection by means of correspondence analysis 9. Varieties of Capitalism and Social Change in Rich Democracies 10. Authority: a social coordination-mechanism A Contribution to the Explanation and Analysis of Social Mechanisms 11. Conclusion

Dr. Peter Graeff is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His research interests include positive and negative social capital, statistics/methodology, conflict and military sociology. Previous publications include Why Nations Arm in Age of Globalization, Comparative Sociology, 2 (4), 2003, (with Guido Mehlkop). Dr. Guido Mehlkop is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Dresden University of Technology, Germany. His research interests include the institutional and cultural determinants of economic growth and income inequality; the economic theory of conflict and crime, and military sociology.

• 1. Introduction 2. Thucydides, Ancient Greece and the Democratic Peace 3. What Is The Democratic Peace And Why Pursue It? 4. Production, Prosperity, Preferences and Peace 5. Peace by Interdemocratic Institutions? A Theoretical Framework 6. Rewards of Freedom: Democracy and the Inflow of Foreign Direct Investment, 1984– 7. Is the IMF right? How robust is the relationship between market-oriented institutions and policies and economic growth? 8. Economic Freedom, Wealth and Corruption: Analyzing their empirical connection by means of correspondence analysis 9. Varieties of Capitalism and Social Change in Rich Democracies 10. Authority: a social coordination-mechanism A Contribution to the Explanation and Analysis of Social Mechanisms 11. Conclusion