Answer: Michael Doyle and Bruce Russett
Notes: According to Doyle and other advocates of the democratic peace theory, liberal democratic states have been able to maintain peaceful relations amongst themselves, but are prone to wage war against non-democratic regimes. According to Bruce Russett “A neo-Kantian perspective: democracy, interdependence, and international organizations in building security communities” a vast databases have been constructed of historical dyadic relationships between states as well as detailed breakdowns of incidents of inter-state war.
