2 SECURITY INTERESTS IN SEEING DEMOCRATIZATION SPREAD 5.
4 REASONS FOR NOT SPREADING DEMOCRACY 8.
Last century, the number of democracies in the world increased significantly (Smith & Hadfield & Dunne, 2008: 53). In 1900, only fourteen countries could be described as democratic, whereas 103 countries were liberated in 2000 (Smith, et al., 2008: 53). The liberal democratic peace theory claims that liberated countries never go to war against each other (Sa-rensen, 1993: 93). Therefore, it could be assumed that as more countries in the world change into democracies, the more peaceful the world would become. By making this deduction, all liberal countries in the world should have a strong security interest in spreading democracy to all authoritarian countries. However, summits like the recent one between President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao of China, prove that not all authoritarian governments have an interest in becoming a democracy. .
To examine the relations between all democratic countries to all-authoritarian countries would exceed the dimension of this assignment. 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. .
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2 Democratic Peace Theory.
The democratic peace theory can be defined by it's two main characteristics. The first one is that liberal states stay in a peaceful relationship (Sa-rensen, 1993: 93). The second characteristic is that the "relationship between liberal and non-liberal countries.is characterized by many conflicts"(Sa-rensen, 1993: 93). The assertion that democratic countries never fight against each other, was made first by the liberalist Emanuel Kant (Sa-rensen, 1993: 91). In Kant's essay "Perpetual Peace," from 1795, he gave inter alia the following reason for the assumption that liberal states be peaceful against each other (Sa-rensen, 1993: 91).
