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Recent empirical International Relations research suggests that democracies, in general, are uniquely paci c. The strongest statistical results, however, have been obtained from datasets that violate the assumptions of the statistical models typically used in estimation. The most widely cited democratic peace studies, moreover, arbitrarily categorize relatively continuous democracy measures and...