Nonetheless, this does not mean that democratic countries are more peaceful than other political systems, which lead to the second characteristic of the democratic peace theory (Sa-rensen, 1993: 93). ... This section showed that democratic countries are not be more peaceful than other political systems, but however empirical researches have demonstrated that war between democracies is seldom if ever. If consequently liberal countries have a security interest in seeing democratization spread to authoritarian countries will be discussed in the following section. 3 Democratization Process 3.1 Ho...

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Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. ... Can they afford social unrest due to required reforms of the eco-nomic and social system just one year before local elections, which in turn would lead to the country's accession to the European Union on January 1, 2007? ... Important domestic decisions such as the urgent reform of the dead-beat health...

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