For example, Farber and Gowa (1995) find evidence for peace between democracies to be statistically significant only in the period from 1945 on, and consider such peace an artifact of the Cold War, when the threat from the communist states forced democracies to ally with one another.
舉例而言，Farber和Gowa(1995)發現民主與和平間的關係只有在1945年以後才有數據上的重要性，他並且將這種和平視為是冷戰所人為製造的，也就是當共產國家的威脅逼使民主國家們互相結盟時。