Liberal demokratik barış kuramı: Eleştirel bir değerlendirme

Liberal Demokratik Barış Kuramı, demokratik devletlerin birbirlerine karşı savaşmayacakları tezini ileri sürmektedir. Bu tez, demokratik egemenlik biçiminin doğası gereği barışçıl olduğukabulü ile temellendirilmiştir. Bu çalışmada söz konusu iddialar ele alınıp irdelenmiş; ileri sürülenbu iddiaların geçerli olup olmadığı tartışılmıştır. Liberal Demokratik Barış Kuramı, Uluslararasıİlişkiler disiplininde önemli kuramsal katkılardan biri olarak değerlendirilmektedir. Bu çalışmadaöncelikle kuramın gelişimi, pratik sonuçları ele alınacak ve daha sonra yeni kuramsal katkı vemodeller tartışılacaktır. Bu şekilde kuramın güçlü ve zayıf tarafları tespit edilmeye ve demokratikbarış kuramının Uluslararası İlişkiler teorisi açısından önemi belirlenmeye çalışılacaktır. Çalışma, sonuç bölümünde genel bir değerlendirme yapılarak tamamlanacaktır

Liberal democratic peace theory: A critical reappraisal

Liberal Democratic Peace Theory asserts the argument that democratic states do not make awar upon each other. This argument grounded on the theory that claims democratic structure ofpolitical system helps to establish a peaceful foreign policy. Hence, it can be said that democraticstates do not wage war, unless they are attacked or provoked by none-democratic or authoritarian states. This paper contents the democratic peace theory with its basic components and proposals,and then discusses whether this theory provides us a better explanatory frame work for understanding its complexity of international relations. Although this theory is well known among theAmerican scholars, in Turkey, there are not sufficient studies explaining this approach. In thiscontext, it is the aim of this study to make a proper contribution in clarifying the vague in the areastudied

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