The perilous path to the democratic peace -- Reconciling the democratic peace with accounts of democratization and war -- Explaining turbulent transitions -- Data and measures for testing the argument -- Democratization and war: statistical findings -- Democratizing dyads and the outbreak of war: statistical findings -- Democratizing initiators of war: tracing causal process -- Tracing trajectories of democratization and war in the 1990s -- Conclusion: Sequencing the transition for peace -- Appendix: Democratizing countries that experienced the outbreak of external war, 1816-1992.