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Monday September 03, 2012 · 11:45 AM PDT

2012/09/03 · 11:45

Last semester I wrote a paper comparing Democratic Peace Theory and Civilizational Clash. I would post the paper but I wrote it in a single night the day before and the writing is horrible. I will, though, as some point be revisiting this paper for another class to try and flesh it out more. As such this will be more a food for thought diary with me asking your thoughts than it will be a full on data explosion.

Anyway, within this paper I attempted to see if a civilizational divide will bring about perceptional differences within levels of democratization between states. That is to say will the culture effect how democracy is perceived, or can democracy itself alleviate cultural differences. Within the paper I reference one study that tried to evaluate cultural perceptions and support for the use of force. The results were, to some respect, positive in that one of the trials showed that force was hesitated upon if the other state was perceived to be culturally similar. The study itself, and noted within, did not explicitly use democracy to split in and out groupings. It was though a basis for further study and a point where I tried to make inferences from past historical cases.

Continues after the divide...

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Sunday September 02, 2012 · 8:02 PM PDT

2012/09/02 · 20:02

Well this diary is not going to be very informative so much as it is going to be me putting in writing what I might try and write diaries on. Currently I am a major in International Relations and very interested in conflict studies. I will more or less use this diary to post things still being learned or what I read/research. Either to get opinions or to just inform for those who want to know more. A lot of my individual research will be along the lines of Democratic Peace Theory, Huntington's Clash of Civilizations (a book which I think pundits in the media use as a rhetorical tool without having actually read.), and theoretical ideas to reconcile the two.

As for now though classes start again in 2 days and I am still slogging through Political Order in Changing Societies.

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