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The point of the theory is that, if those autocracies were converted to democracies, then the risk would disappear because they would no longer be interested in
by saraid216 13y ago
The point of the theory is that, if those autocracies were converted to democracies, then the risk would disappear because they would no longer be interested in war.
This effectively justifies being world police, which is only one of the reasons I disagree with the theory.
- ekianjo 13y ago> if those autocracies were converted to democracies That's the key flaw of that theory, you'd need War in the first place to change the power in place in such countries, and even in Iraq where this was actually done, the actual democracy you get out of it is dubious at best.
- saraid216 13y agoTo clarify, are we talking about what the theory is, or whether the theory is correct? Because I'm trying to explain the former, while you seem to be going at the latter. The theory exists. That it's flawed isn't something I dispute. I pretty much think that the theory of democratic peace, as well as the idea that democracies are magically economic engines of amazingness, are complete wishful thinking and hindsight justification for people who can't grasp why we'd do democracy for its own sake.