Jonathan D. Caverley is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, where he co-chairs the Working Group on Security Studies at the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies. For 2013-14, he is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He previously served as a submarine officer in the US Navy.

• 1. Introduction: sources of democratic military aggression; 2. Cost distribution and aggressive grand strategy; 3. Analyses of public opinion; 4. Analyses of arming and war; 5. British electoral reform and imperial overstretch; 6. Vietnam and the American way of small war; 7. Becoming a normal democracy: Israel; 8. Conclusion: strategy wears a dollar sign.

'Jonathan Caverley's Democratic Militarism links economics, domestic politics, and international security in a fresh and thought-provoking way. This book deserves to be pondered by both scholars and policy-makers alike.' Thomas G. Mahnken, Jerome Levy Chair of Economic Geography and National Security, US Naval War College