![]() Furthermore, the consequences and implications of achieving peace and democracy, and the wide variety of actors involved, lack conceptualization. Nevertheless, peace studies and democracy studies have tended to take different directions.Īcademic research on the attainment of peaceful societies and democracy remains underdeveloped. ![]() In more recent decades, the notion that ‘democratic or liberal states never or very rarely go to war with each other’ ( Gat, 2006, 73) has been further developed and debated. ![]() Kant therefore suggested that a ‘republican constitution’ offers the potential to achieve ‘a perpetual peace’ (translation by Nisbet, 1991, 100). Immanuel Kant, writing in 1796, proposed that, if ‘the consent of the citizens is required to decide whether or not war is to be declared, it is very natural that they will have great hesitation in embarking on so dangerous an enterprise’. Peace and democracy are intertwined concepts.
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