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Does democracy bring peace? American President Woodrow Wilson stated in 1917 to Congress that "a steadfast concert of peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations."1 Some seventy seven years later, another American President, Bill Clinton famously told Congress "The best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other." 2 Two speeches almost eighty years apart but this declaration of support and solidarity by two American presidents for the idea that through the spread of democracy, peace will be achieved shows how widespread the idea has been accepted across the Western world and in international relations theory. Certainly there would appear to be plenty of evidence to support this claim, in the last fifty years, more than conflicts between countries have taken place, not on a single occasion has...

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