Article Review: “Does Democracy Cause Peace?”

Published by Annual Review of Political Science Journal on Volume 1, 1998, the article on “Does Democracy Cause Peace?”, James Lee Ray, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, discussed on the proposition that democratic states are peaceful in their relations with each other and are less war-prone in general, the greater number of democratic states in the international system, the lower the incidence of war in that system.

Article Review: "Democracy and Armed Conflict"

The article on “Democracy and Armed Conflict” published by Journal of Peace Research, Havard Hegre, Professor at Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University spoke about the democracy and armed conflict relations, focusing on both conflicts internal to states and interstate conflicts.

Starting from the background of the democratic peace idea, Havard Hegre identified that idea of democracy rarely fight each other is origin from Immanuel Kant by citing his work: ‘The citizens of a (democratic) republic will hesitate before embarking on a war, for this mean calling down on themselves all the miseries of war.’

Article Review: Democratization, Elite Transition, Violence in Cambodia, 1991-1999

In the article “Democratization, Elite Transition, and Violence in Cambodia, 1991-1999”, published on 21 October 2010 in Critical Asian Studies, David Roberts spoke about the influence of the elite’s role in managing the transition of democratization in Cambodia from 1991 to 1999. He discussed reasons, and approaches that brought elites to reform or not reform away from personal interest and self-aggrandizement and lead to fairly represent the whole interest groups.