ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces two important modifications to democratic peace theory. First, it argues that international institutions, or more specifically the subgroup of interdemocratic institutions, are particularly suited to the regulation of security conflicts. Hence, they constitute a missing link between democracy and peace. Second, this study takes results from comparative democratization studies into account. In the face of the increasing prevalence of mixed or incoherent regime types, it is important to move beyond the simple democracy/autocracy dichotomy that has driven most research on the democratic peace.
