왜 민주주의는 서로 싸우는가? : 민주평화론의 그리스적 예외에 대한 정치문화적 설명

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The proposition that democracies rarely fight each other in the modern international system is increasingly accepted, and of great importance to theory and practice. Yet evidence for it in democracies in Greece in the fifth century BC is weak at best. Bruce Russett, a protagonist of the democratic peace theory, explains that is why the peaceful norms were “just been born and not fully effective.” This explanation seems to be not persuasive in that a warrior spirit was more dominant in the ancient Greek culture than peaceful norms. The citizen-warriors of ancient Greek state-cities pursued ‘glory(Kleos )’ and ‘fame(Timē )’ through courageous face-to-face battles, and thought retreat from the battle or non-involvement in the war due to fear from death and defeat as irreparable ‘shame(aiskhumē )’ and ‘dishonor(atimia ).’ In the cultural This warriorspirit which Greek citizens shared with would lead them to support pro-war proposals more pushfully, along with realistic desires wars could bring about.

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