Therefore, this work will concentrate on the democracy of the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) and on the authoritarians leaderships of China and the Middle East. 2 Democratic Peace Theory The democratic peace theory can be defined by it's two main characteristics. ... Finally, liberalists demand that the people rule the power of the state (Baylis, et al. 2005: 186). ... For that reason and for the fact that almost all democracies are liberal states and almost all liberal states are democracies (Lynn-Jones, 1998), in this assignment the terms liberal state/country and dem...

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