Democratic peace theory | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-27

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00:01:35 1 History
00:05:18 2 Definitions
00:05:39 2.1 Defining democracy
00:08:10 2.1.1 Non-binary classifications
00:09:13 2.1.2 Young democracies
00:11:32 2.2 Defining war
00:13:22 2.3 Monadic vs. dyadic peace
00:14:15 3 Possible exceptions
00:17:32 4 Statistical difficulties due to newness of democracy
00:18:49 4.1 Studying lesser conflicts
00:21:15 5 Conflict initiation
00:23:09 6 Internal violence and genocide
00:26:33 7 Explanations
00:27:24 7.1 Democratic norms
00:31:20 7.2 Democratic political structures
00:38:20 8 Criticism
00:38:47 8.1 Statistical significance
00:40:53 8.2 Peace comes before democracy
00:42:02 8.3 Wars against non-democracies
00:42:23 8.4 Definitions, methodology and data
00:47:46 8.5 Microfoundations
00:48:56 8.6 Limited consequences
00:52:11 8.7 Historical periods
00:52:39 9 Academic relevance and derived studies
00:54:57 9.1 Coup by provoking a war
00:56:00 10 Other explanations
00:56:09 10.1 Political similarity
01:01:14 10.2 Economic factors
01:09:33 10.3 Other explanations
01:12:48 10.4 Realist explanations
01:19:17 10.5 Nuclear deterrent
01:20:25 11 Influence
01:22:47 11.1 As justification for initiating war
01:26:44 11.2 Other factors related to democracies being more peaceful
01:30:15 12 Related theories
01:30:25 12.1 The European peace
01:31:13 13 See also
01:31:35 14 Sources
01:31:44 15 Notes
01:31:53 16 External links



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Democratic peace theory is a theory which posits that democracies are hesitant to engage in armed conflict with other identified democracies. In contrast to theories explaining war engagement, it is a "theory of peace" outlining motives that dissuade state-sponsored violence.
Some theorists prefer terms such as "mutual democratic pacifism" or "inter-democracy nonaggression hypothesis" so as to clarify that a state of peace is not singular to democracies, but rather that it is easily sustained between democratic nations.Among proponents of the democratic peace theory, several factors are held as motivating peace between democratic states:

Democratic leaders are forced to accept culpability for war losses to a voting public;
Publicly accountable statespeople are inclined to establish diplomatic institutions for resolving international tensions;
Democracies are not inclined to view countries with adjacent policy and governing doctrine as hostile;
Democracies tend to possess greater public wealth than other states, and therefore eschew war to preserve infrastructure and resources.Those who dispute this theory often do so on grounds that it conflates correlation with causation, and that the academic definitions of 'democracy' and 'war' can be manipulated so as to manufacture an artificial trend.