POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Democratic Peace Theory, Dependent And Independent Variables, World-Systems Theory
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European coal and steel industry one unified community, which lead eventually to the. These were most crucial ingredients of weapons; as a result the countries could make war against each other. Democratic peace theory no two democracies have ever made war with each other. The reason: it"s usually the citizen that pays for the cost of war, not the leader. If that"s the case, the average citizen is very reluctant to go to war. Another key component of democratic peace theory: they tend to go to war against authoritarian states more often than authoritarian states go to war with each other. Much of the liberal perspective is based off idealist thoughts. Attempt to make international organizations league of nations. What was the best way to ensure stability? one way was to cripple the economy of. Critical perspectives: marxist approaches: the defining characteristic of modern societies was capitalism. He called capitalism the great locomotive of history .
