To date, the only account of the `zone of peace' among states in the core of the international system is that found in the democratic peace debates. We rework the conceptual parameters through which the object of analysis — the zone of peace — is defined in the democratic peace debates. Specifically, we historicize the concepts — `democracy' and `war' — that enable the identification of zones of peace and war, and contextualize those histories in processes of globalization. This enables us to offer an alternative account of the emergence of zones of peace and war in the international system and of the central unit of analysis in the democratic peace debates, the sovereign and territorial liberal democratic state. This account conceives of the international system as a whole and recognizes the mutually constitutive character of relations between the zones. It opens up a research agenda focused not on why democratic states do not war with one another but on the international relations of democracy and war.

Politics may not be in the blood, but it could be in the genes. That’s the theory a team of political scientists and geneticists is trying to prove with extensive studies of twins, genes and brain scans.

Tell Hillary Clinton to keep her liberal paws out of your wallet!

When are one of these guys going to grow a set and take on these libs in the media? Challenge them on their liberal DNC talking points. Shoot down their ridicules premises of their question. Get confrontational… be freakin’ interesting!

Democrats have been advocating higher taxes for Americans all year long. Now, recession fears hit world markets like a Tsunami, and the libs are now scrambling to advocating TAX CUTS to spur economic growth faster than Chucky Schumer can find a TV camera.

The word "Conservative" has become a far more filthy word than "Liberal" ever was. If Democrats learn from Republican mistakes, America will quickly become their country to lose.