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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Introduction
The popularity of the democratic peace research program is probably second to none in contemporary international relations research. Much of this popularity (and the program’s controversial nature) is due to the finding that democracies are unlikely to engage each other in short-of-war militarized disputes and almost never fight one another in full-scale wars. However, this result overshadows an important paradox that is summarized by the three following empirical statements:
Democracies are about as conflict prone as nondemocracies.
Democracies rarely clash with one another in militarized disputes and almost never fight one another in full-scale war.
The proportion of democracies in the international system is either unrelated, or positively related, to the amount of systemic conflict.
These empirical statements are supported by the analyses in Table 8.1.
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