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The Democratic Peace Treaty

            The Democratic peace theory refers to the apprehension democratic nations have regarding waging war against other nations. The goal of this literature review is to explain the thoughts of researchers in regards to their debate. Current researchers of the democratic peace theory have varying views which include, democracies fight aristocratic and nondemocratic governments, those who wage war due to the belief that they hold the power to create peace, and fear of an economic downfall. .
             Democracies Fight Aristocratic and Nondemocratic Governments.
             While studies agree militant democracies are likely to start wars with aristocratic governments and non-democratic, Seung-Wang Choi states that "Israel, the United States, India, and the United Kingdom tend to initiate wars with aristocracies to preserve international law, to terminate massive breaches of human rights, or to democratize resistant dictatorship " (261). Choi's studies are relevant since they help explain the concepts of democracies wanting to fight aristocracy governments. John M. Owen agrees with Choi overall, but explains whether or not democracies tend to go to war with aristocratic or non-democratic governments. Owens explains "The United States' real motives for attacking Iraq may have been complex, but 'regime change' -- the replacement of Saddam Hussein's gruesome tyranny with a democracy -- was central to Washington's rhetoric by the time it began bombing Baghdad in March 2003"" (Owen). This assures that a democracy's motive is to go to war with a non democratic nation just because the country is not a democratic country. .
             Owens finds that the White House got its science wrong and that democratic peace does not edict that the United States should go try to remake Iraq into a democratic nation (Owen). When explaining the motives of why democracies go to war with aristocracies and nondemocratic nations, Owens is more elaborate in explaining that democracies are misinterpreting the meaning of democratic peace, while Choi focuses on democracies trying to start wars with aristocratic and nondemocratic governments.


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