I was thinking about this question a few years ago, but have two genuinely democratic nations ever gone to war with one another? I couldn't think of an example, but I may be overlooking something.
I was thinking about this question a few years ago, but have two genuinely democratic nations ever gone to war with one another? I couldn't think of an example, but I may be overlooking something.
WW1. Depending on what your definition of Democracy is.I was thinking about this question a few years ago, but have two genuinely democratic nations ever gone to war with one another? I couldn't think of an example, but I may be overlooking something.
- First World War: The Polity IV dataset does not rank any of the Central Powers as democracies, although the component of democracy for Germany had been higher than that of autocracy since the 1890s, when Bismarck was replaced by Leo von Caprivi;[17] neither does the somewhat controversial[18] ranking of Tatu Vanhanen;[19] on the other hand, all of the Central Powers had elected parliaments; the Reichstag had been elected by universal suffrage, and voted on whether a credit essential to the German conduct of the war should be granted. Whether this is democratic control over the foreign policy of the Kaiser is "a difficult case"; Michael W. Doyle concludes, however, that the government was not absolutely dependent on the Reichstag - and that Germany was a dyarchy, effectively a mixture of two different constitutions, and democratic on internal affairs.[20]
Athens vs Syracuse during the Peloponnesian war, both were democracies with elected leadersI was thinking about this question a few years ago, but have two genuinely democratic nations ever gone to war with one another? I couldn't think of an example, but I may be overlooking something.