The Democratic Peace Theory

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Abstract

The scholars of the international relations have developed several theories in order to describe the existence and evolution of international conflicts. One major theory that has been presented by these scholars is the democratic peace theory that argues that the democratic states are less probable to involve in conflict with one another. This thesis is an attempt to analyze that why the democratic peace theory is problematic. For this purpose, the conflict of Israel and Palestine has been considered as the main example (Gelpi, 1918).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

ABSTRACTIV

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Background1

Problem Statement3

Research Aims and Objectives3

Research Questions3

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW5

Democratic Peace Theory5

Structural Explanation of Democratic Peace Theory11

Normative Explanation of Democratic Peace Theory12

Monadic Explanation of Democratic Peace Theory13

Dyadic Explanation of Democratic Peace Theory14

Wider Implications of Democratic Peace Theory15

Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Democratic Peace Theory16

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY18

Research Design18

Secondary Research19

Advantages of Secondary Research19

Research Method20

Qualitative research21

Philosophy for the Research21

Literature search22

Method for Data Analysis23

Validity23

Ethical consideration24

CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION26

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION33

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background

Today, the democratic peace theory has become very common. This thesis has pointed out the very fundamental aspects of the democratic peace theory and the focus, as the thesis has suspected that the strong aspects of the democratic peace theory are already well known. The focus of this research has been on its biggest challenges and problems. The democratic peace theory state that democratic states do not fight with one another, they often fight with non-democratic states, but they never fight with each other. The supporters of the democratic peace theory consider that history explains us that this theory is true. In some cases, the democracies endangered force to each other (Ikhenberry, 2011). There are four major explanations for the democratic peace theory. The first main explanation is that; few scholars argue that democratic states inherit rules of peaceful resolution of conflict that they also show in their external relations. The second explanation is that the democratic settings such as the powerful government and competitive voting make illegal for the executive to go for war. The third explanation is that, some scholars argue that the democratic states trade a lot with each other and that therefore war would be just costs, however no gains. The fourth explanation is that one can argue that democratic states are commonly liberal nations, and that liberalism generates all the above-mentioned outcomes (Hall, 2012) (Gelpi, 1918).

The claim by the first group of critics ...