The capitalist peace, or capitalist peace theory, or commercial peace, posits that market openness contributes to more peaceful behavior among states, and that developed market-oriented economies are less likely to engage in conflict with one another.[1] Along with the democratic peace theory and institutionalist arguments for peace, the commercial peace forms part of the Kantian tripod for peace.[2] Prominent mechanisms for the commercial peace revolve around how capitalism, trade interdependence, and capital interdependence raise the costs of warfare, incentivize groups to lobby against war, make it harder for leaders to go to war, and reduce the economic benefits of conquest.[3]
Scholars have debated the empirical and theoretical validity of the commercial peace thesis, as well as the mechanisms behind the theory.[4][5][6] According to one review of existing research, the evidence on the relationship between economic interdependence and conflict is inconclusive.[7]
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follows: there is a financial and technological penetration by the developed capitalist centers of the countries of the periphery and semi-periphery; this produces...
focus of study. Marxists view the international system as an integrated capitalist system in pursuit of capital accumulation. A sub-discipline of Marxist...
to the US hegemony, in 2003 agreed that this hegemony causes the present peace and stability. Until the early 2000s, Jack S. Levy and William Thompson...
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supply chains; such companies are Dell, AOL, and Microsoft. Friedman's capitalistpeace theory called Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention is discussed in the...
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