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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.

Democratic peace theory claims that realism does not apply to democratic state-to-state

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