Latest Democratic peace theory Stories

The Digital Policy Council tracks the making of a new geopolitical identity. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Digital Policy Council (DPC), an international, non-partisan "think tank" on 21st Century Governance, discusses in its latest report how global politics is being reconfigured along a new international order based on the openness of governments and the levels they undertake to engage their citizens. Historically political leaders have tended to prefer dividing...

New research by the University of Warwick and Humboldt University shows that the frequency of wars between states increased steadily from 1870 to 2001 by 2% a year on average. The research argues that conflict is being fed by economic growth and the proliferation of new borders.We may think the world enjoyed periods of relative freedom from war between the Cold War and 9/11 but the new research by Professor Mark Harrison from at the University of Warwick's the Centre for Competitive Advantage...