Democratic peace theory

The democratic peace theory posits that democracies are hesitant to engage in armed conflict with other identified democracies.Among proponents of the democratic peace theory, several factors are held as motivating peace between democratic states: 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.

Democratic peace theory

The democratic peace theory posits that democracies are hesitant to engage in armed conflict with other identified democracies.Among proponents of the democratic peace theory, several factors are held as motivating peace between democratic states: 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.