The Dream of a 'Democratic Peace'
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2012.648Abstract
Peace research often refers to Immanuel Kant, who saw a causal connection between the internal and political constitution of states and their foreign policy. Therefore, republican states are supposed to have less interest in foreign-policy conflicts than others. To fathom this theorem, a meeting was held at the European Academy in Berlin in 2009 by the 'working group on historical peace research'. The result of this conference was a volume which critically examines the interpretation 'democracy=peace' from different disciplinal perspectives, describes its genesis, and compares theory and practice. The book gives a general idea of basic concepts of peace research; nevertheless, it is ultimately unable to answer the question whether the aforesaid theory can claim validity.
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