Liberal Peace Theory

Friday, October 10, 2008

As always, wikipedia is the best place to start.

The only way to constructively examine this theory is by first defining what democracy is.

http://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4.htm

This is an interesting rating system, but at least one aspect makes me feel that whatever guidelines they go by are flawed. France from 1960-1969 scores 5 on the scale while only 6 and above are considered democracies.

Funny enough, Russia and Georgia both score 7s during their conflict.

http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/cow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_possible_exceptions_to_the_democratic_peace_theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_possible_exceptions_to_the_democratic_peace_theory