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Checking in on democratic peace: Part II

June 15, 2021Critical State

Critical State, our foreign policy newsletter, takes a deep dive into a core principle of democratic peace theory — the idea that democratic states don’t fight wars with one another. 

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How Viktor Orban degraded Hungary’s weak democracy

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