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Argument: Democracies do not externalize their conflict resolution processes

Issue Report: Democratic peace theory

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Sebastian Rosato. “The Flawed Logic of Democratic Peace Theory”. The American Political Science Review. Vol. 97, No. 4 (Nov., 2003) – “Democratic peace theory is probably the most powerful liberal contribution to the debate on the causes of war and peace. In this paper I examine the causal logics that underpin the theory to determine whether they offer compelling explanations for the finding of mutual democratic pacifism. I find that they do not. Democracies do not reliably externalize their domestic norms of conflict resolution.”