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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Democratic Peace Theory"”.
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The Democratic Peace Theory and Biopolitics
… working to spreading democracy and maintaining peace through foreign policy. Ever since the American-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq after the 9/11 terror attacks, democratic peace theorists have been pushed further to the sidelines as their theory has been put to the test and struggled to …
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Does Democratic Peace Theory Apply to Small Powers? A Case Study of Turkey and Israel
This thesis hypothesizes that shared democratic values and institutional constraints, proposed as explanations by Democratic Peace Theory (DPT), should in theory prevent small powers from engaging in physical conflict. However, because these democracies are small and developing, these constraints …
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British Foreign Policy: An Examination of the Relationship between British Intelligence, Democratic Peace Theory, and International Law through the Lens of Ethnic Stratification & Mass Atrocity in Southeast Asia 1965-1990
Democratic peace theory suggests that democratic states do not engage in covert action against one another.1 Academic scholarship, however, indicates that democratic states will use covert action against an elected government if national security planners perceive there is democratic decay in its …
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The Specter of Liberal Benevolence: Power, Podcasts, and Perpetual Peace
… class. Specifically, the framings of the democratic peace theory, multilateralism, and international law soften the violent and deleterious interventionist decisions made by the foreign policy elite. Furthermore, these framings are used to academically bolster liberalism and add to their …
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Political Cultures in Times of Crisis: Measuring the Effects of Liberal Values on Interstate Crisis Onset
<p>The belief that democratic states are less likely to engage in war or initiate conflicts in the international system is deeply embedded in the international relations literature, but also hotly contested. Despite close to two centuries of theoretical presence and decades of empirical analysis, …
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The rise of "china threat" arguments
… of states behavior- realism, organization theory, and democratic peace theory. The rise of "China threat" arguments occurred in the United States and Japan because of a convergence of several factors, the most important of which was the increase of China's relative power after the Cold War. …
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The Power of Perception: Securitization, Democratic Peace, and Enduring Rivalries
What best explains the democratic peace: empirical indicators of democracy or the mutual perceptions of democracy within a dyadic relationship? This paper will examine three enduring rivalry dyads: the United States-Great Britain, France-Germany, and India-Pakistan, during the course of their …
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Nagorno Karabakh Conflict: Problems and Possibilities for Political Resolution
The argument that democratic states do not go to war with one another, better known by political scientists and international relations theorists as the democratic peace proposition, remains one of the most difficult to dispute phenomena in state's relations with one another. Immanuel Kant argued …