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April 26, 2006

The Best Discovery Since Fire--Pax Democratica

Topics: Freedom's Zone

Support for the democratic peace proposition that democracies don't make war on each other continues to accumulate from social scientific research, while the information gatekeepers continue to ignore it. This is an incredible gap. On the one side there is these well accepted empirical findings about this solution to war, democide, and famine; on the other side is American foreign policy based on these findings; but in the middle there is a vast ignorance and misunderstanding of the democratic peace. So, I will continue to harp on it in the hope that I will help making more widely known this incredible power of democratic freedom. That is the purpose of this blog, my website, my novels, and all else I've written in the last 25 years.

Also to this end, I want to present the best work I've read on the democratic peace, which is the Ph.D. dissertation by Harries-Clichy (Pete) Peterson, Jr., titled PAX DEMOCRATICA: IMPLEMENTING THE INTER-DEMOCRATIC PEACE PROPOSITION (University of Hawaii, 2001--I had retired well before then and was not a member of his dissertation committee). The date is crucial, since it was written the year of the 9/11 attack, and thus before President Bush announced his democratic peace based, Forward Strategy of Freedom. Anyone reading both Peterson's dissertation and Bush's speeches since then might conclude that Bush had studied what Peterson had to say. I don't think so, but it is clear that both are eating at the same social scientific table.

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Posted by Rudy at April 26, 2006 11:51 PM

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