Democratic peace is presently a theory that has come under fire from many individuals due to the complex nature in which it is applied to nations and their handling of foreign affairs. There are currently two accepted arguments: (1) Democracies do not fight one another because they are self-organizing systems and are therefor fundamentally distinct from other states, and (2) they are as prone to conflict with nondemocracies or quasi-democracies as nondemocracies are with one another. These …showed first 75 words of 1678 total…

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