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Ido Oren

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BIOGRAPHY Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Florida. Author of Our Enemies and US: America’s Rivalries and the Making of Political Science. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Political Theory (2010) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.

Primary Contributions (1)

democratic peace

Democratic peace, the proposition that democratic states never (or almost never) wage war on one another. The concept of democratic peace must be distinguished from the claim that democracies are in general more peaceful than nondemocratic countries. Whereas the latter claim is controversial, the…

Publications (2)

Our Enemies and US America's Rivalries and the Making of Political Science (January 2013)

By Ido Oren

Ido Oren challenges American political science's definition of itself as an objective science attached to democracy. The material Oren unearthed in his research into the discipline's ideological nature may discomfit many: Woodrow Wilson's admiration of Prussia's efficient bureaucracy; the favorable review of Mein Kampf published in the American Political Science Review; the involvement of political scientists in village pacification and interrogation of Viet Cong prisoners during the Vietnam...

Encyclopedia of Political Theory A - E (March 2010)

By Mark Bevir

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How do we arrange our collective affairs? Why do we live together in the ways we do? How ought we to live together? All humans think about the world they live in, its history and future, and the ideals by which they want to live in relation to others. How we think today decisively influences the world of tomorrow. This encyclopedia attempts to bring greater clarity and understanding to political...