Political Science · International Relations
UGC NET July 2018 Political Science
Democratic peace theory has been largely associated with the writings of
AImmanuel Kant and Voltaire
BMichael Doyle and Bruce Russett ✓ Correct
CThomas Christensen and Thomas Schelling
DMahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru
Correct answer: (B) Michael Doyle and Bruce Russett — Democratic peace theory is associated above all with the writings of Michael Doyle and Bruce Russett.
Explanation
★Democratic peace theory is associated above all with the writings of Michael Doyle and Bruce Russett.
★The theory holds that liberal democracies very rarely, if ever, go to war with one another.
★Michael Doyle revived the idea in 1983, drawing on Kant's 'Perpetual Peace' (1795).
★Bruce Russett gave it strong empirical support in 'Grasping the Democratic Peace' (1993).
★It belongs to republican liberalism, which links democratic government with peaceful relations.
★Immanuel Kant inspired the theory, but it is not credited to Kant and Voltaire together.
★Thomas Schelling and Thomas Christensen are strategic and security scholars, not its authors.
★Gandhi and Nehru were statesmen of non-alignment and non-violence, not democratic peace theorists.
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