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Democratic peace theory claims that realism does not apply to democratic state-to-state
relations because studies show that democratic states do not go to war with one another.
Realists and proponents of other schools, on the other hand, have criticized both this
claim and the studies that appear to back it up, claiming that the definitions of "war"
and "democracy" need to be tweaked to achieve the desired result to support the democratic
peace theory.