Background
Gaubatz, Kurt Taylor was born on October 23, 1957 in Redwood City, California, United States.
(Foreign policy makers and international relations scholar...)
Foreign policy makers and international relations scholars have become increasingly interested in the relationship between democracy and war. In this book, the author argues that the international relations of democratic states are best understood in the context of the interaction of democratic and international politics. Elections are an essential institution of democratic states, while war is a defining element of international politics. This book examines the interaction of these two elemental phenomena. All state leaders must deal simultaneously with internal and external pressures. The conjunction of domestic electoral pressures and international pressures for war presents an acute form of this dilemma. Those who support increasing democratic influence on foreign policy have argued that this influence would make states more peaceful, while others have asserted that it would make foreign policy more volatile.
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Gaubatz, Kurt Taylor was born on October 23, 1957 in Redwood City, California, United States.
Bachelor of Science, University California, Berkeley, 1979. Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy, Fletcher School Law & Diplomacy, Medford, Massachusetts, 1980. Master of Divinity, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, 1985.
Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, Palo Alto, 1990. Master of Arts (honorary), Oxford University.
Assistant professor Stanford University, California, 1990—1999. National fellow The Hoover Institution, 1996—1997. Visiting john winant lecturer American foreign policy Nuffield College, Oxford University, 1999—2000.
Associate professor, graduate program international studies Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, since 2000.
(Foreign policy makers and international relations scholar...)
Married Kathlyn Ray Taylor, May 31, 1980. Children: Jayne Taylor, Andrew.