Democratic Peace Theory Democratic Peace Theory A democratic peace theory or simply democratic peace (often DPT and sometimes democratic pacifism) is a theory in international relations, political science, and Philosophy which holds that democracies—specifically, liberal democracies—never or almost never go to war with one another. A more general version is that all kinds of systematic violence is rare in and by liberal democracies. It can trace its philosophical roots to Immanuel Kant. ...more on Wikipedia about "Democratic peace theory"
Never at War is a book by the historian Spencer R. Weart published by Yale University Press in 1998. It examines political and military conflicts throughout human history and finds no exception to the democratic peace theory. In addition to the democratic peace, Weart argues that there is also an oligarchic peace and provides a new explanation for both the democratic and oligarchic peace. ...more on Wikipedia about "Never at War"
Perpetual peace refers to a state of affairs where peace is permanently established over a certain area (ideally, the whole world - see world peace). ...more on Wikipedia about "Perpetual peace"
Rudolph Joseph Rummel (born October 21, 1932) is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii and alternative historian. He has spent the latter part of his career assembling data on wars, conflicts, and governmental murder, for which he has coined the term democide. ...more on Wikipedia about "R. J. Rummel"
Critics of the Democratic peace theory argue that there are many historic examples of wars between democracies. Supporters argue that closer examination shows that none of these conflicts were wars between democracies. These and other possible counter-examples have been discussed in great detail in the literature. Note that this discussion does not concern other claims made by the theory, like a statistical tendency for fewer ' MIDs' between democracies. Note also that more examples are discussed in the article about the book Never at War which also discuss the role of oligarchies. ...more on Wikipedia about "Why Rummel is always right"
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