Democracies are extremely unlikely to wage war against other democracies – this main proposition of the Democratic Peace theory constitutes the starting point

It has become generally accepted wisdom that democracies do not go to war against each other. However, there are significant differences between democratic stat

Commencing with Susan Sontag's line that "the only worthwhile answers are those that blow up the questions," ten contributions by UK and US academics critique t

The book turns the 'democratic peace' theme on its head: rather than investigating the reasons for the supposed pacifism of democracies, it looks for the causes

Are democracies less likely to go to war than other kinds of states? This question is of tremendous importance in both academic and policy-making circles and on