Exam 4: War and Democracy

____________________ are likely to be critical of democratic peace theory because it ignores the economic and political realities of capitalism.

The expectation that democracies will try to deal with their international disputes by applying the same norms they apply to domestic political conflicts is the foundation of a __________________ explanation of the democratic peace.

If we can identify other reasons why democracies may never have fought each other (e.g., wealth or a common culture), the relationship between democracy and peace may be _______________.

The assumption that people in democratic countries will oppose war because they are unwilling to shoulder its human and economic costs is central to the _______________ explanation of democratic peace.

There are many who claim that World War II was a war between two democracies because the United States and Germany fought each other.

____________________predicted more than 200 years ago that democracies/republics would eventually form a separate peace.

Democracies have never seriously considered going to war against each other.

Continued peace among democracies would lend support to a _________________ perspective on international relations.

Immanuel Kant argued that wars among democracies were likely to be more destructive than wars among monarchies.

The existence of "checks and balances" is an example of the dispersion of political power emphasized in _____________ versions of democratic peace theory.

Why are some people not persuaded that the absence of war between democracies validates democratic peace theory?

A constructivist explanation for democratic peace emphasizes

World War I is inconsistent with democratic peace theory because most of the countries of Europe were democratic in 1914.

The American Civil War is usually not viewed as a war between democracies because

The American Civil War is usually not considered a war between two democracies.

Why might the next 50 years provide a better test of democratic peace theory than the previous 50 years?

Given that no democracy in the nineteenth and early twentieth century meets the ideal standards of democracy, it should come as no surprise that there are disagreements about the democratic credentials of _____________________ on the eve of World War I.

The next few decades are likely to be critical for evaluating democratic peace theory because

For ____________________ the peace among democracies depends on democracies defining themselves as regimes that do not fight other democracies.

The constructivist version of democratic peace theory argues that the dispersion of political power in democracies makes them less able to make the decision to go to war.