THANK YOU SO MUCH for explaining these concepts in such an understandable way! I'm taking IR Theory at my university now and I can't grasp anything my teacher says. Your channel is helping me immensely for test prep.
@@NoahZerbe Hi Noah. How do you counter the fact that there have been multiple cases of democracies fighting one another - India & Pakistan (1948, 1999), Armenia & Turkey (2020), WW1 (if you consider Germany to be a democracy), Indonesia & Malaysia (1963, Konfrontasi) amongst other examples? India and Bangladesh almost went to war in 2001 when there were major armed skirmishes between both sides even though they were both democracies at that time. If as you point out in the video, this theory only applies to examples involving mature, liberal democracies, then why call it "Democratic Peace Theory"? Why not call it the "Mature, Liberal Democratic Peace theory" instead? And if one of the legs that the democratic peace theory rests on is economic interdependence, then why did WW1 happen when all the involved parties had significant capital overlap with one another (Britain and Germany, France & Germany)? When Germany declared war against Soviet Union in June 1941, Soviet Union was Germany's number 1 trading partner. Doesn't all of this lend credence to John Mearsheimer's contention that given the structure of the international system (no higher authority or nigh watchman, anarchical nature of international system), states cannot afford to pay attention to the internal political structure of another country and would have to do whatever they have to do to survive, effectively meaning that the democratic peace theory has been invalidated?
@@eugenedebbs2189 i think being less prone to war doesn't necessarily mean no wars. And I don't understand what you mean by Mature democratic peace theory.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH for explaining these concepts in such an understandable way! I'm taking IR Theory at my university now and I can't grasp anything my teacher says. Your channel is helping me immensely for test prep.
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How do we differentiate democratic peace theory from liberal theroy of IR.There seems to be so much overlap.
There is indeed much overlap, as democratic peace theory is derived from liberal IR.
@@NoahZerbe Hi Noah. How do you counter the fact that there have been multiple cases of democracies fighting one another - India & Pakistan (1948, 1999), Armenia & Turkey (2020), WW1 (if you consider Germany to be a democracy), Indonesia & Malaysia (1963, Konfrontasi) amongst other examples? India and Bangladesh almost went to war in 2001 when there were major armed skirmishes between both sides even though they were both democracies at that time.
If as you point out in the video, this theory only applies to examples involving mature, liberal democracies, then why call it "Democratic Peace Theory"? Why not call it the "Mature, Liberal Democratic Peace theory" instead?
And if one of the legs that the democratic peace theory rests on is economic interdependence, then why did WW1 happen when all the involved parties had significant capital overlap with one another (Britain and Germany, France & Germany)? When Germany declared war against Soviet Union in June 1941, Soviet Union was Germany's number 1 trading partner.
Doesn't all of this lend credence to John Mearsheimer's contention that given the structure of the international system (no higher authority or nigh watchman, anarchical nature of international system), states cannot afford to pay attention to the internal political structure of another country and would have to do whatever they have to do to survive, effectively meaning that the democratic peace theory has been invalidated?
@@eugenedebbs2189 i think being less prone to war doesn't necessarily mean no wars. And I don't understand what you mean by Mature democratic peace theory.
Very useful
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