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Our commitment is to exclusively peaceful means of securing a democratic peace settlement that will see the end of all armed groups, including the Irish Republican Army.
For a generation that adage has provided one of the firmest laws of modern democratization, the equivalent for comparativists of the democratic peace among international relations scholars.
Instead of pursuing a "Democratic Peace" that they predict will be neither democratic nor peaceful, Lieven and Hulsman propose a "Great Capitalist Peace," predicated on the recognition that marketplace values are far more widely accepted than democratic ones — and that prosperity is a surer hedge against aggression than democracy is.
The concept of democratic peace must be distinguished from the claim that democracies are in general more peaceful than nondemocratic countries.
In no way would this be a "democratic peace".
The arc to democratic peace is therefore U-shaped.
Democratic peace, the proposition that democratic states never (or almost never) wage war on one another.
There is less agreement, however, on why the democratic peace exists.
Thus, the terms democratic peace (or liberal peace) and Kantian peace are today often used interchangeably.
The popularity of the democratic peace idea has not been confined to the academy.
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But that support has chiefly been for the ideal of a democratic, peace-seeking Israel.
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