Forward to the future? The democratic peace after the Cold War

Johann Park

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2013, vol. 30, issue 2, 178-194

Abstract: This paper helps resolve the ongoing debate concerning whether the democratic peace is limited to the Cold War period. Some critics have attributed the democratic peace to a set of common interests among democracies that uniquely existed during the Cold War. This study is the first direct test of this proposition. I use a new measure of Cold War preferences to test if the effect of joint democracy is rendered statistically insignificant either during or after the Cold War as critics contend. I also test, as some democratic peace proponents have suggested, whether the pacifying effect of democracy is strengthened in the post-Cold War era. Evidence from period-specific logit analyses suggests that joint democracy promotes peace independently of Cold War security interests. Indeed, the democratic peace exists in the post-Cold War era.

Keywords: Causes of peace; Cold War; common interests; democratic peace; post-Cold War (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/0738894212473927

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