the Difference beetwen Democracy and Autocracy

1. Shakhzodbek Makhmudov
The 4th year
student of The International Relations
of the University of World Economy and Diplomacy

2. Debates about democratic peace.
Three views
1. Monadic and dyadic versions of democratic peace.
2. Determination of “peacefulness.”
3. Distinction between a state’s level of democracy and
its process of democratization.

3. Determination of peacefulness
■ Democracies have obviously fought many “extra-
systemic” wars against weaker non-democracies.
Moreover, they have undertaken frequent military
intervention and covert actions to overthrow
popularly elected but unfriendly governments.

4. Two versions of democratic peace
■ MONADICVERSION
– Are states more
peaceful generally,
even when the other
state in a relation is
not a democracy?
■ DYADICVERSION
– Are democracies just
more peaceful
toward each other?

5. Process of democratization
■ Democratization process in the absence of strong
political institutions and conducive liberal culture can
actually incline leaders to initiate bellicose foreign
policy, involving their countries in foreign wars.

6. Democracy Autocracy

7. Autocracy
• personalist,
• military,
• monarchy
• and single-party regimes
• face political and even
physical demise after being
defeated in competition

8. Democracy
• winning coalition
• “audience costs”
• Parliamentary
• Presidential
• two-party
• multi-party system
• separation of executive and legislative
branches of government
• Most leaders of democratic regime
leave their duty after involving
International conflicts