Why don’t democracies fight each other? The role of territorial issues

Why don’t democracies fight each other? The role of territorial issues

Why don't democracies fight each other? Since discovering this empirical regularity, scholars have assumed that the answer must lie with regime type (i.e. democracy). Our paper provides and tests an alternative explanation: the territorial explanation of war, which stresses grievances and argue...

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Veröffentlicht in:Conflict management and peace science 2023-11, Vol.40 (6), p.619-633
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