Democratic Peace

Question 1

Democratic peace: Monadic

Answer 1

Democracies are more peaceful?
Modern liberal democracies: political rights and civil liberties.
Look at data bases to assess the level of democracy.
Consensus: a lot of scholars agree that democracies are not the most peaceful bc no correlation to high moral ground.

Question 2

Democratic peace: Dyadic

Answer 2

Democracies don’t fight each other?
No clear exception to this rule.

Question 3

B.Russett & Z.Maoz

Answer 3

Categorization of explanation of democratic peace:
Institutional: explains how democratic institutions come with constraints that prevent democracies from fighting each other.
Normative: We perceive each other based on norms. How we consider our rules and ways. Able to solve conflicts peacefully.

Question 4

A. Geis, L. Brock, H. Mueller

Answer 4

Democratic Wars: Looking at the Dark Side of Democratic Peace.
For two states to perceive each other as an “us”, common identity.
The best way for a group to see each other as a group, it has to do with we have an enemy in common. They need to be in autocracy and to be in conflict with another democracy.

Question 5

D. LABE

Answer 5

democracies ally because they face common threats from autocratic states because autocratic systems need to expand because they can’t have wealth that is generated inside, no incentive to innovation. Democracies don’t have these pb because they don’t take resources from their subjects.