Democratic Peace Theory

>>1969130
Just like any political science theory, it's not inherently falsifiable or determinative of the future.

As for the extent as to which a layman political analyst/theorist should believe in the validity of the theory, I'd say that one should look at the chronological order y which the theory was developed.

Hint* The moral judgement came before the theoretical judgment.

It depends on what you count as a conflict or not.

By the industry standard, if you will, it is thus far a valid as two democratic nations have yet to be in conflict with each other.

>holy crusades
>convert earth to liberalism

wat?

>>1969160
>By the industry standard,

What does this even mean?

> if you will, it is thus far a valid as two democratic nations have yet to be in conflict with each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_between_democracies

>>1969130

Read 'War and the Liberal Conscience', I know it sounds like a meme tier book, but it is a very serious source for war/international/security studies.

>>1969173

How the current institutions see the situation, say SIPRI's definition of conflicts for example. According to the data two liberal democracies are yet to be in an armed conflict with each other, hence why the democratic peace theory is still valid.

Again, it depends on 1. How a democracy is defined and 2. How an armed conflict is defined.

Going back as far as the roman empire is an invalid argument, as the roman empire was not a liberal democracy.

>>1969194
>Again, it depends on 1. How a democracy is defined and 2. How an armed conflict is defined.

So the whole theory is reliant on semantics?

>Going back as far as the roman empire is an invalid argument, as the roman empire was not a liberal democracy.

Ancient democracy existed regardless of whether the Roman Empire was a liberal democracy or not.

>>1969214

It depends on who you ask, the mainstream approach is that it is still valid.

>>1969160
>as two democratic nations have yet to be in conflict with each other.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil_War

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>>1969227
>the mainstream approach is that it is still valid.

No, /his/, Rome is not an example of liberal democracy

and Greece isn't either

>>1969252
Liberal democracy was not the original term in the Democratic Peace Theory.

It's a very small sample size. Many democracies were already allies, even before becoming democracies. IMHO, the DPT reflects the fact that common people do not prefer war.

>>1969238

As I said, look it up and what their sources say. SIPRI is a great start.

If one democracy wants to go to war with another democracy then the first nation just says the other nation isn't a true democracy.

>>1969392
I've gathered it's a false theory but people like to play with semantics to pretend its true.

>>1969315
That's not evidence of what you claim