Back to kant : reinterpreting the democratic peace as a macrohistorical learning process
By: CEDERMAN, Lars-erick
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ArticlePublisher: 2001American Political Science Review 95, 1, p. 15-32Abstract: The contemporary international relations literature links the democratic peace hypothesis to Kant`s famous peace plan. Yet, whether attempting to prove or disprove the hypothesis, most quantitative studies have lost sight to important dimensions of the Kantian vision. I reinterpret the democratic peace as a dynamic and dialectical learning process. In order to assess the dynamic dimension of this process (while controlling for exogenous dialectical reversals), I rely on quantitative evidence drawn from popular data sets. In conformance with the Kantian perspective, the conflict propensities among democracies exhibit a steadily falling trend since the nineteeth century. Yet, in partial opposition to Kant`s expectations, other dyads also experience a significant, although weaker, pacifying trend. A series of tests shows that these findings are robust to epochal effects, various control variables, and "maturity effects" measuring the age of democratic dyads
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The contemporary international relations literature links the democratic peace hypothesis to Kant`s famous peace plan. Yet, whether attempting to prove or disprove the hypothesis, most quantitative studies have lost sight to important dimensions of the Kantian vision. I reinterpret the democratic peace as a dynamic and dialectical learning process. In order to assess the dynamic dimension of this process (while controlling for exogenous dialectical reversals), I rely on quantitative evidence drawn from popular data sets. In conformance with the Kantian perspective, the conflict propensities among democracies exhibit a steadily falling trend since the nineteeth century. Yet, in partial opposition to Kant`s expectations, other dyads also experience a significant, although weaker, pacifying trend. A series of tests shows that these findings are robust to epochal effects, various control variables, and "maturity effects" measuring the age of democratic dyads
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