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The liberal perspective of international relations provides the strongest explanation of
democratic peace between international parties. Liberalists explain the fact that through the
1990s and 2000s and even today, the countries were set to begin of yet another free trade
agreement with Trans-pacific partnership (Russett, 2017). The overall goal was to be able to
increase the quality of trade between countries involved so that in the future when there's a time
of need, the nations will be more inclined to help each other out. The diplomacy of democratic
countries regards negotiations between adversaries as a means of conciliation, requiring mutual
concessions leading to lasting democratic peace (Thompson, 2017).
The Identity perspective, on the other hand, might be considered worse in explaining
democratic peace. It explains that democratic peace is reliant on outside forces; for instance, it is
required at least two states that are both democratic since one democratic state is insufficient to
bring democratic peace.
From the history of democratic peace developments, it can be seen that the democratic
peace will last a reasonable amount of time. This is because the countries that aspire to be
democratic still do and continue to hold a position of high influence internally, regionally and
globally (Thompson, 2017).
It is a brilliant idea that the United State foreign policy responds to democratic peace by
encouraging its spread globally. It can do this by building support for liberal principals both
before and after countries undertake elections. Also, the US should support free and fair elections
in countries that are liberal as this will help to bolster the emerging international norm that
leaders should be accountable to their people. The countries that decide to make the change and
come on board do so willingly and when they feel ready.
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References:
Russett, B. (2017). The democratic peace. In Conflicts and New Departures in World Society (pp.
21-43). Routledge.
Thompson, P. (2017). Peace and war: a theory of international relations. Routledge.