The Democratic Peace Thesis holds that democracies rarely make
war on other democracies. Political scientists have advanced
numerous theories attempting to identify precisely which elements
of democracy promote this mutual peace, often hoping that
Democratic Peace could be the final and ultimate antidote to war.
However, as the theories were taken up by political figures, the
immediate outcomes were war and the perpetuation of
hostilities.
Political theorist Piki Ish-Shalom sketches the origins and
early academic development of the Democratic Peace Thesis. He then
focuses on the ways in which various Democratic Peace Theories were
used by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both to shape and to
justify U.S. foreign policy, particularly the U.S. stance on the
Israeli-Palestinian situation and the War in Iraq. In the
conclusion, Ish-Shalom boldly confronts the question of how much
responsibility theoreticians must bear for the political uses--and
misuses--of their ideas.
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