Political Science 2231E Chapter Notes - Chapter Democracy & Armed Conflict: Dialectic
4 Feb 2019
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Kant - democracies will rarely fight each other. Peace is dialectic process where states gradually learn to form pacific unions. Democratic peace" surged from the obscurity of the wisconsin sociologist. It brought a major shift toward the acceptance of large-n statistical studies within ir. Dyadic level: considerable agreement that the absence of war between democratic states comes as close as anything we have to an empirical law in international relations". Monadic level: less compelling evidence for democratic countries being less warlike overall. Relatively free" countries participated in war just as much as the less free". A number of studies find empirical confirmation of an inverted-u" relationship between level of democracy and the probability of onset of internal armed conflict. Semi- democratic regimes have a higher risk of internal conflict than consistent autocracies or democracies. Democracies are more likely to experience conflicts over territory than the other two regime types.
