The concept of the Democratic Peace Theory

Democratic Peace Theory The concept of the Democratic Peace Theory is based on the idea that whether states are likely to go to war or choose peace depends on the type of political system they have.

There are three sub divisions 1) Monadic; Democracies that tend to be generally peaceful and are not likely to go to war, although people (can you identify people) who argue this only examine the years 1960-1970.

2) Dyadic; This version is the most accepted amongst theorists, very peaceful among one another, only likely to go to war against non allies. 3) Systematic; This is a union of states like the UN or NATO. In most literature on the this topic the two main views or interpretations of this theory (Normative logic & Institutional logic) can be formed.

In my opinion there is better transparency in the Institutional logic, for this reason I have based my essay on why I think this is the case with reference to many studies carried out over the last half a century.

Few findings in political science have been scrutinized so closely as the “democratic peace,” the identification that democracies almost never fight other democracies (Doyle 1983; Russett 1993). To some, the truancy of military conflict among democracies is so invariable that it approaches the status of an “empirical law” (Levy 1988)

Some authors and theorists have strived to explain the democratic peace by drawing attention to the role of public opinion. They witness that democratic leaders are beholden to voters, and claim that voters reject war because of its human and financial costs. This altercation, which dates to Immanuel Kant, predicts that democracies will react peacefully in general—avoiding war not only against democracies, but also against autocracies. Hist...

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