Back to Kant: Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace as a Macrohistorical Learning Process.

After more than a decade of intense scholarly debate, the claim that democratic states hardly ever fight each other remains contested. Although most analysts appear to support the democratic peace hypothesis, a small but determined minority of realist scholars does not accept it. Despite this fundamental disagreement, both camps agree that Immanuel Kant laid the intellectual foundation of the hypothesis.

in the late eighteenth century.(1) Whether aiming at corroboration or refutation, most contemporary scholars appear to believe that they are operationalizing and testing some version ...

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