ABSTRACT
This chapter concludes the book. In addition to recapitulating the main arguments from the various chapters, it reflects on (i) the politics of democratic peace and on (ii) the future of democratic peace. About the politics of democratic peace, the chapter maintains that it is combative but to conservative ends and further suggests that, while violent at times, its violence is not sustained. Its violence primarily constitutes a meting out of punishment. About the future of democratic peace, the chapter speculates that the practice has a good chance of continuing to be performed also after the end of liberal hegemony. In these new conditions, the democratic peace may assume an increasingly incantatory aspect, but that is in no way against its nature.
