Democratic peace theory

Jackson and Morelli (2009) say that elected leaders under the last term of a term-limit can diverge from the population’s interests and go to war. As stated earlier, the Democratic Peace Theory is a theory that believes democracies hesitate to engage in armed conflict with other democracies because of mutual democratic pacifism maintaining that the state of peace can easily be sustained between democratic nations. However, democracies can engaging in war through a coup, such as the coup in Venezuela when the United States assisted the Venezuelan military into forcing Chavez to step down as president. Unfortunately, the coup was unsuccessful and caused bad blood between the United States and Venezuela. Young democracies are also in danger of being subjects of war because they are seen as vulnerable and unstable in their governing policies. While democratic peace arguments have drawn attention to the statistical fact that democracies have historically not been involved in wars with other democracies , democratic states…

question will be answered with reference to two theories: the Democratic Peace Theory and to Classical Realism Theory. The Second World War ended in 1945 and for many decades following the war, the dominant theory for explaining the world order was realism. It was the theory that provided the most relevant and powerful explanation to the state of war, which was the current condition of the world at that period in the international arena. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the…

Under the structural model, the tendency for peace between democratic nations stems from the time and support needed to carry out a major conflict. On the contrary, the cultural mode, detailed in the following paragraphs, claims that the tendency toward peace derives from the political belief that democracies should be friendly towards one another in order to preserve democracy in the international sphere. This theory proposes that democratic states do not enter violent conflicts with other…

State typology has been identified as one of the conditions which make genocide more likely. Under the democratic peace theory, it is believed that democratic states are less likely to engage in internal and external wars. In fact, Rummel (1995, p. 25) opines that the best way to prevent such acts of mass killing are to encourage “democratic openness, political competition, leaders responsible to their people, and limited government”. It is argued that totalitarian and autocratic regimes have…

Democratic peace theory puts forward the idea that democracies do not fight against each other and thus promote peace. Immanuel Kant was the first person to throw light on this topic in 1795 in his very well renowned essay , Perpetual Peace. According to him, democracy will not participate in warfare, unless its for the purpose of self protection. Thus, if all the countries in the world were to be democracies , there would be no war. The theory puts in a great deal of trust in democracies and…

The Democratic Peace Theory is a theory that any democratic country will not attack another democratic country. The main reason force this is because that democratic countries are a representative of the people, and that people would rather avoid war by means of diplomatic agreements. The strength of this theory is that majority of democratic countries are general wealthy nations that have developed a great economy and infrastructure which leads them to approach diplomatic problems in a safer…

world without war. American president Woodrow Wilson, for example, believes that democracy is inherently peace desiring and consequently contributes to the world peace, replacing war-like political regime (Gat, 2006). It is largely supported by liberal thinkers such as John Locke and Immanuel Kant. Liberalism is considered as an alternative theoretical thinking to realism, which is regarded as the dominant theory in the international relations (Dunne, 1997). It is a theory of both governments…

Written in 1795, Immanuel Kant’s essay ‘Toward a Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch’ is a key text in discussions surrounding war, peace, and cosmopolitan ideals. Kant’s ideas of constitution, federation of free states and the cosmopolitan rights of individuals have formed the building blocks of many strategies for peace enacted since then, although his advice is occasionally ignored to this day. Scholars have interpreted Kant’s work in many ways, with some ideas being labeled as liberal,…

International law faces the question of whether in fact it is a law at all. The lack of government to enforce the law as there is in a domestic government leaves a foggy area with a number of possible outcomes, either war or peace between sovereign states. It is alleged that only powerful states have a say in implementing the law and that less fortunate states have to comply. Despite this, international law is most of the time followed. It is derived from customary practices that all is…

Immanuel Kant has the idea of perpetual peace that could only be obtained through our universal morality. He writes a lot about morality to try and inform his readers that internationally, morality within humans needs to be acted on in a way other humans would agree with. Kant wants humans to act in a universally accepted manner. For example, if you believe stealing is okay, then you should think it is okay when someone steals from you. “The greatest problem for the human species, whose solution…