TY - BOOK ID - 7215179 TI - Constructing national security PY - 2013 SN - 9781107040427 9781139628969 9781107645165 9781107417342 1107417341 1107040426 1139893157 1107425239 1107423023 1107419956 1107421209 1139628968 1107645166 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--INDIA KW - INDIA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--USA KW - USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--CHINA KW - CHINA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--USA KW - USA--NATIONAL SECURITY KW - DEMOCRACY KW - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS KW - National security KW - Homeland defense KW - Homeland security KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7215179 AB - Jarrod Hayes explores why democracies tend not to use military force against each other. He argues that democratic identity - the shared understanding within democracies of who 'we' are and what 'we' expect from each other - makes it difficult for political leaders to construct external democracies as threats. At the same time, he finds that democratic identity enables political actors to construct external non-democracies as threats. To explore his argument, he looks at US relations with two rising powers: India and China. Through his argument and case studies, Professor Hayes addresses not just the democratic peace but also the larger processes of threat construction in international security, the role of domestic institutions in international relations, and the possibility for conflict between the United States and the world's two most populous countries. ER -