How Liberalism Produces Democratic Peace
@article{Owen1994HowLP, title={How Liberalism Produces Democratic Peace}, author={John M. Owen}, journal={International Security}, year={1994}, volume={19}, pages={125 - 87} }
democracies seldom if ever go to war against one another has nearly become a truism. The ”democratic peace” has attracted attention for a number of reasons. It is “the closest thing we have to an empirical law in the study of international relations,” reports one scholar.’ It poses an apparent anomaly to realism, the dominant school of security studies. And it has become an axiom of U.S. foreign policy. ”Democracies don’t attack each other,” President Clinton declared in his 1994 State of the…
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