ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on opportunity to test the following three hypotheses stemming from the democratic peace logic: democratic states are significantly less likely to host conflicts than are non-democratic states and they are to participate in conflicts. Stronger states are less likely to host conflicts than their weaker counterparts. Collectively, these models enable to demonstrate the increased likelihood of conflict hosting that can be associated with the observation of democratic institutions, both at the state-and neighborhood-level, and with the availability of enhanced levels of material capabilities in the state. The chapter summarizes plain to see that the statistical models along with their corollary post-estimation analyses have resoundingly offered evidence sufficient to confirm the three test hypotheses. The chapter demonstrates that democratic major power states, including the USA, UK, France, Germany, and Japan, are significantly advantaged in international politics to the extent that they are able to dictate where new militarized conflicts will take place.
