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Supported by history: only few cases that challenge this

History tells us that this is true. In only very few cases have democracies threatened force to each other, and in only a couple – some say in none – have they fought a war.

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Supported by history: only few cases that challenge this
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Democracies fight non-democracies, but not each other.
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Democratic states do not make war on each other
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Fukuyama's 'end of history': democracy & free-trade will spread
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If all states are democratic = war will be abolished
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Underpins idea of the liberal peace liberal state-building.
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