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	Democratic peace theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The democratic peace theory or simply democratic peace (often DPT) is a theory in international relations, political science, and philosophy which holds that democracies—specifically, liberal democracies—never or almost never go to war with one another.
		The original theory and research on wars has been followed by many similar theories and related research on the relationship between democracy and peace, like that lesser conflicts than wars are rare between democracies, and that systematic violence is in general less common within democracies.
		The fall of Communism and the increase in the number of democratic states were accompanied by a sudden and dramatic decline in total warfare, interstate wars, ethnic wars, revolutionary wars, and the number of refugees and displaced persons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_peace_theory (7109 words)

	Politics Essays - International Relations - Democratic Peace Theory
		Proponents of democratic peace theory have often been accused by their detractors of modifying their interpretation of terms such as this (as well as what actually constitutes a war or even peace, inasmuch as peace may not be simply the absence of war) to suit their data on historical conflicts to supporting their theory.
		The nature of democratic institutions and public control over their representatives is a major factor in averting war, as citizens of one liberal democracy respect the integrity of other liberal democratic states and forego violence and coercion in favour of tolerance and freedom.
		It is thus an endeavour of proponents of democratic peace theory to demonstrate that there are no historical cases where two democracies have gone to war with one another, for to admit of just one instance of where this is the case would be sufficient to disconfirm totally their hypothesis.
	www.geocities.com /lylbf/essays/democrat.html (1422 words)

	Peace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peace may refer specifically to an agreement concluded to end a war, or to a lack of external warfare, or to a period when a country's armies are not fighting enemies.
		Peace is not a symbol, peace is a mindset.
		Peace movement: social movement that seeks achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, often linked to the goal of achieving world peace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peace (2650 words)

	Man, State and the Myth of Democratic Peace
		'Democratic peace' is merely an adjunct of the American foreign policy based on the vision of the 'two worlds', and is just another tool in the hands of western powers to challenge the sovereignty of the states in the era of globalisation.
		According to this theory, democratic dyad refrain from using force against each other, because they are accountable to their citizens.
		Furthermore, the spread and the acceptability of the idea of democratic peace could have a detrimental impact on the stability and peace in the world, because it promotes the trend-'with me or against me.' The stratification of nation-states on the basis of their polity challenges the equality between nation-states and their political sovereignty.
	www.mafhoum.com /press3/112S21_files/AN-APR0402-9.htm (3896 words)

	Promoting Democracy Won't Necessarily Produce Peace
		The eighteenth-century philosopher, Immanuel Kant, was one of the earliest proponents of democratic peace.
		Democratic peace theory also has the advantage that its prescription for the future is hopeful and principled.
		Although Wilson was a proponent of democratic peace, for example, he sent the Marines to Mexico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua to "teach the South American republics to elect good men." America's constitutional system has not prevented it from being in a state of war in one place or another almost continually since 1941.
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	"CDL Single record display" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Democratic peace theory has also come to have a real-world importance as well: Policymakers who have embraced democratic peace theory see a crucial link between America's security and the spread of democracy, which is viewed as the antidote that will prevent future wars.
		Democratic peace theorists contend that the theory is validated by a large number of cases.
		Democratic peace theorists waffle on this point by suggesting that the absence of war between democracies is more important than the absence of threats.
	www.uoregon.edu /~rmitchel/ir/readings/layne.htm (8308 words)

	Democratic Peace Bibliography
		The democratic peace occurs because the leaders of two such constrained states will not both be able to gain the necessary support to go toward war.
		While the theory may hold some truth for consolidated democracies, the paper draws attention to the argument by Mansfield and Snyder that transitional democracies tend to be more war-prone in their international relations.
		The democratic peace claim is not about democracies per se as much as it is about countries that are "America-like" or of "our kind." the apparently objective coding rules by which democracy is defined in fact represent current American values.
	www.hawaii.edu /powerkills/BIBLIO.HTML (5372 words)

	My Quiet Life » democratic peace
		Democratic peace theory argues that, basically, liberal democracies rarely or never go to war against one another.
		The flaw in applying this theory as an argument in favor of democratizing a country or region by force is that DPT applies to established liberal democracies that have formulated their democratic institutions in an evolutionary, internal way.
		Mansfield and Snyder then provide several succinct stories of democratizing states that did in fact go to war, such as the France of Napoleon III (1852-70), Serbia between 1877 and 1914, Ethiopia and Eritrea between 1998 and 2000, and Pakistan from 1947 to the present.
	chris.quietlife.net /2005/11/27/democratic-peace (1144 words)

	R. J. Rummel - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rummel used to publicly claim that he was a finalist for the Nobel Prize for Peace, based on an AP report, reprinted in his local paper, about an alleged Nobel short list of 117 names.
		Most theorists explain the democratic peace either on the institutional pressures which make for peace; or that the culture of democratic states induces its citizens, including its politicians, to attain their goals by discussion rather than force.
		The democratic peace theory is now one of great controversies in political science and one of the main challenges to realism in international relations.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/R._J._Rummel (2382 words)

	World peace - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		World peace is often claimed to be the inevitable result of some political ideology.
		The plausibility of world peace tacitly relies on the assumption of rational agents that base their decisions on future consequences, which is not self-evident.
		Proponents of the controversial democratic peace theory claim that strong empirical evidence exists that democracies almost never make war against each other (with certain exceptions, such as Britain's declaration of war with Finland in December 1941).
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/World_peace (979 words)

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		Democratic peace theory predicts that military rule in Pakistan would have prompted frequent outbreak of conflict because an autocratic government would not seek conflict resolution through peaceful negotiations.
		The data does not correlate to initial predictions of the democratic peace theory about the history of conflict in the subcontinent.
		As an alternative hypothesis to the traditional democratic peace framework, one could also explain inter-state conflict as an attempt by a democratic government to divert intra-state violence and explain autocratic restraint as an attempt to gain international legitimacy.
	www.stanford.edu /~devasher/Madhavi/Internships/Devasher.doc (539 words)

	Perils of a Democratic Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This assertion is based on the principles of an international relations theory commonly referred to as the "democratic peace." Simply put, this theory states that democracies have demonstrated a remarkable reluctance to go to war with one another; therefore, expanding the rolls of democracies will promote world peace and, thus, America's security.
		Indeed, an examination of the tenets of this theory demonstrates that eager adherence to the democratic peace is a precarious and potentially perilous foundation upon which to build U. security.
		That democracies frequently indulge in these less-than-benign acts against other democracies serves to demonstrate that the promise of a democratic peace is hollow: the "peace" that is proffered is not without perils, and indeed it can often be exceptionally menacing.
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	Making the World Safe for Imperial Democracy by Anthony Gregory
		According to Eland, "democratic peace theorists frequently and unconvincingly try to tweak the definition of democracy to exclude those cases from the category of ‘wars within the democratic family.’ For example, [they] attempt to exclude Wilhelmine Germany" from the definition.
		Now we start to truly understand the implications of democratic peace theory, at least as it is advanced by the advocates of U.S. wars for "liberation." Under the theory, a "democracy" essentially seems to mean the U.S. government and its allies.
		Under democratic peace theory as embraced by pro-war thinkers on the right, these military interventions were justifiable, and, indeed, should be amplified and expanded throughout the globe.
	www.lewrockwell.com /gregory/gregory58.html (1855 words)

	Democracies or McDonald's; What Builds World Peace? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although democratic states go to war with non-democratic states and non-democratic states will go to war with other non-democratic states, domestic pressures and shared norms of behavior prevent democracies from going to war with other democracies.
		Democratic peace theorists believe that the chance of war is less in a democracy because decision makers are restrained by the multiplicity of political structures and voices in policy making.
		Other democratic peace theory scholars assert that democratic leaders and societies are socialized by democratic norms to settle domestic discrepancies peacefully, and are predisposed to settle international differences in the same manner.
	www.dushkin.com /connectext/wpold/ch6/srvy5a.mhtml (330 words)

	Lawyers, Guns and Money: The Democratic Peace
		I think that the scholars who study the democratic peace are convinced that something is there (and they may be right), but don't have a handle on precisely how to define it.
		Democratic peace theory still faces the difficulty of being an empirical finding without a compelling theoretical justification.
		I would be very cautious, however, in making democratic peace theory the centerpiece of foreign security policy strategy.
	lefarkins.blogspot.com /2005/07/democratic-peace.html (347 words)

	Perils of a Democratic Peace - Storming Media
		This assertion is based upon an international relations theory called the "democratic peace." Expressed simply, it states that democracies are reluctant to engage one another in war; therefore, increasing the number of democracies worldwide will promote peace and, ultimately, America's security.
		Although it is a seductive theory, the notion of the democratic peace has many pitfalls.
		The goal of this thesis is to demonstrate that the democratic peace theory is not an appropriate foundation for U.S. national security strategy.
	www.stormingmedia.us /07/0741/A074143.html (232 words)

	Talk:Democratic peace theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This todo list is an attempt to revolve remaining disputes in the Democratic peace theory article.
		Add the comments yourself, because 99% of the time it will not be done otherwise.
		Perhaps we should include a section on dependency theorists such as Immanuel Wallerstein that see DPT as a result of the North-South divide rather than intra-institutional pacifism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Democratic_peace_theory (660 words)

	Democratic Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, democratic reform is always difficult, and the stars...
		Designed to enhance development of the American democratic process by enabling young people to prepare for political and moral leadership through participatory training in the theory and...
		A critique of the theory of democratic centralism and the status that Lenin's "What is to be Done", is held in by many on the left, by Hal Draper.
	www.bluedogdemocrats.com /democratic-theory.html (243 words)

	Untitled-4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		That democracies do not war with one another and that a world of democratic states would therefore be a world of peace is a proposition accepted by many students of international politics -- not to mention American policymakers.
		This course will critically examine the phenomenon of "democratic peace" and various explanations that have been proposed for it.
		Our object will be to gain an understanding of the essential elements of democratic peace theory, the research techniques that can be utilized to test its various propositions, and the principal findings that have been generated by empirical studies, as well as to develop a sense of the theory's strengths and weaknesses.
	vassun.vassar.edu /~strock/poli360.syllabus.html (897 words)

	Peter Levine: Iraq and democratic theory Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Whether a democratic election occurs depends on many people's behavior, yet each person benefits regardless of what he or she does.
		In theory, however, we could make democracy-promotion a consistent goal and then constantly seek opportunities to advance it: in diplomacy, military exchanges, trade policy, progaganda, and economic aid.
		People who implicitly hold this view believe that we are part of a democratic community, so we are morally required to associate ourselves with the actions of the US Government.
	www.peterlevine.ws /mt/archives/cat_iraq_and_democratic_theory.html (15346 words)

	JustinLogan.com: Democratic Peace
		The democratic peace theory also has to rule out all those colonial wars by countries that were democratic at home.
		The point is that by conforming to a very stringent definition of democracy, they end exluding a lot of countries that could not satisfy the contempoary definition of democracy, but were democratic by the standards of the day.
		You could argue that a democratic Pakistani leader would have less flexibility in cutting off support for the jihadis in Kashmir, or for agreeing to what Pakistanis views as unfair terms of negotiation.
	www.justinlogan.com /justinlogancom/2005/05/democratic_peac.html (1257 words)

	Kari Jo » Another hmm. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I anticipate Kennon will chime in shortly after I do to pour his customary bucket of cold water, but here goes: I think the DPT is valid insomuch as it is (in my mind and in Wolfowitz’s) the logical solution to the dilemma of despotic states being naturally expansionist.
		When enough people (who will bear the cost of an expansionist war) are enfranchised, they’re not going to be too keen on wars for glory.
		At least we can safely say that the McDonald’s Peace Theory (we never attack a nation with a McDs) is null.
	www.28thavenue.net /~kari?p=101 (407 words)

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	The Peace Encyclopedia: Self-Hating Jews, Self Hatred
		This theory was first applied to the experience of Jews, by Sigmund Freud and Bruno Bettelheim, but it was also soon applied to the experience of African-Americans, by Gordon Allport, Frantz Fanon, Kenneth Clark, and others.
		They want a democratic, not a Jewish state; if they could choose, they would pick a democratic one.
		They believe that universal human values are preferable to Jewish values, not realizing that the former were derived from the later ones.
	www.yahoodi.com /peace/selfhatred.html (3986 words)

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