Democratic Peace Theory (Dpt)
Democratic Peace Theory (DPT)
Introduction
Democratic Peace Theory (DPT) is a modern political theory which became popular among the democratic country to extend and promote their ideology that brings peace and prosperity for the nations. DPT was originated by Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, in the 1795, and it was scientifically evaluated on 1960s. DPT’s main principle say that, the democratic countries do not go to war against each other, for they have common ambitious hope and dream for the nations toward democracy. DPT says that the democratic countries go to war to prevent future war by converting nondemocratic countries to become democratic. It is said that DPT is the foreign policy of American and western democratic countries toward other non-democratic nations. However it has a great controversial debate on that whether the theory really works or not or right or wrong. The two sides try to prove the theory is right or wrong using the past events; and both have credible proves that support theirs believe. I cannot either agree or disagree that the theory is right or wrong since I believe that it depends on the situation and the meaning of how they define and approach the issues. I personally accept that many democratic countries do not fight each other, but I also think that not all the democratic countries are in peace with each other; which mean even two democratic countries are in conflict sometimes. Though I am totally mutual about the DPT, many countries strongly believe in and apply their foreign policy base on this democratic peace theory. If we defined the DPT as involved full scale of warfare with more than 1500 causalities, then we can assume it is likely that the DPT is working; or is safe to assume that two democratic countries have never gone to war. For even though there are some minor wars between the two democratic countries in the history, but not the type of full scale wars with high casualties.
Why democratic countries do
Introduction
Democratic Peace Theory (DPT) is a modern political theory which became popular among the democratic country to extend and promote their ideology that brings peace and prosperity for the nations. DPT was originated by Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, in the 1795, and it was scientifically evaluated on 1960s. DPT’s main principle say that, the democratic countries do not go to war against each other, for they have common ambitious hope and dream for the nations toward democracy. DPT says that the democratic countries go to war to prevent future war by converting nondemocratic countries to become democratic. It is said that DPT is the foreign policy of American and western democratic countries toward other non-democratic nations. However it has a great controversial debate on that whether the theory really works or not or right or wrong. The two sides try to prove the theory is right or wrong using the past events; and both have credible proves that support theirs believe. I cannot either agree or disagree that the theory is right or wrong since I believe that it depends on the situation and the meaning of how they define and approach the issues. I personally accept that many democratic countries do not fight each other, but I also think that not all the democratic countries are in peace with each other; which mean even two democratic countries are in conflict sometimes. Though I am totally mutual about the DPT, many countries strongly believe in and apply their foreign policy base on this democratic peace theory. If we defined the DPT as involved full scale of warfare with more than 1500 causalities, then we can assume it is likely that the DPT is working; or is safe to assume that two democratic countries have never gone to war. For even though there are some minor wars between the two democratic countries in the history, but not the type of full scale wars with high casualties.
Why democratic countries do