Exceptions to the no wars between democracies idea It seems quite a number of examples have been brought force from reliable sources of assertions that this or that conflict was a war between democracies and thus constitutes an exception to Rummel s Democratic peace theory i e his claim that no two democracies have ever made war on each other resulting in more than 1 000 casualties that is If I hear no objection in about one more week I plan to move this article to Objections to the democratic peace theory Thereafter I would invite all the contributors who have mentioned wars between democracies on this page to add information about them to the newly entitle page Each example should explain to what extent the various sources consider that each party to the conflict is a democracy as well as listing the number of casualties reported or claimed Recall that Rummel s owns definition of democracy is quite specific and entails rights as well as expectations along with his own view of an internal distribution of power which he asserts is utterly at odds with the monopoly on war making power which he says the leaders of non democracies enjoy whom he labels dictators But to be neutral we must neither assume Rummel s view is correct nor assume that it is incorrect We must only describe his viewpoint and the evidence he gives for it along with the evidence and arguments that opponents give against it If there s room we can give his rebuttals to those objections too