In sum, theoretical and empirical research establishes that democratic civil liberties and political rights promote nonviolence and is a path to a warless world. The clearest evidence of this is that there has never been a war between well-established democracies, while numerous wars have occurred between all other political systems;…

— Rudolph Rummel Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence (1997)

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