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This 3 page paper analyzes the article "State Repression and the Tyrannical Peace" by Christian Davenport. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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issue of the Journal of Peace Research. Davenport drew his topic for the article from President Bushs statement in his second inaugural address when he stated that the U.S. should
wage a "war against tyranny" (Davenport, 2007, p. 485). Bushs logic for this assertion is that terrorist individuals and organizations "lashed out against countries such as the United States because
they were dissatisfied with the large amount of repression applied by the autocratic governments that they lived under" (Davenport, 2007, p. 485). We might legitimately wonder why these people dont
then attack their governments instead of the United States, but the President is not known for his logical thinking. At any rate, Bush argued that in order to secure international
peace, particularly for the United States, "all autocratic governments needed to be eliminated and replaced with democratic systems. Only then would the world be safe" (Davenport, 2007, p. 485). While
there is a certain simplistic appeal to this view, it also suggests that there is to be a lot of wholesale slaughter of various government officials in other sovereign nations;
and the sole arbiter of whether they will survive or not is the United States. The puts the U.S. in the extreme position of passing judgment on the rest
of the world; it also sparked Davenport to formulate his thesis: that all repressive governments are not repressive in the same way and that studies of this phenomenon are incomplete:
"Existing literature on state repression generally ignores the diversity that exists within autocracies" (Davenport, 2007, p. 485). Davenport sets out to demonstrate that repressive regimes must be considered individually, not
lumped together under some vague heading of tyrannical governments or abusive rulers or something similar. They must be considered on a case-by-case basis. In order to examine his thesis, Davenport
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