relations because studies show that democratic states do not go to war with one another.

關係，因為研究顯示民主國家不會互相開戰。

Realists and proponents of other schools, on the other hand, have criticized both this

另一方面，現實主義者和其他學派的支持者批評了這一

claim and the studies that appear to back it up, claiming that the definitions of "war"

主張以及似乎支持這一主張的研究，聲稱

and "democracy" need to be tweaked to achieve the desired result to support the democratic

需要調整「戰爭」和「民主」的定義才能達到支持的預期結果民主和平

peace theory.

理論。