Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25316824-20161126223728/@comment-25316824-20161129195134

This is going to be a long rant...

1. Democratic leaders are forced to accept culpability for war losses to a voting public.

2. Publicly accountable statespeople are inclined to establish diplomatic institutions for resolving international tensions.

3. Democracies are not inclined to view countries with adjacents poicy and governing doctrine as hostile.

4. Democracies tend to possess greater public wealth than other states, and therefore eschew war to preserve infrastructure and resources.

This study: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1111/0022-3816.00095

finds that spreading peace doesn't spread democracy but spreading democracy does spread peace.