INTL102 Why Do Democracies Not Fight Each Other

Read the attached pdf and use the concept of Democratic Peace to answer the following. Be specific but to the point.

Duncan Hunter, a former Congressman from San Diego, argued in 2017 that the United States should launch a preemptive military attack against North Korea because of its nuclear weapons. Given what you know about democracies and the conditions under which they are willing to start a war, how likely do you think it is that any President (Republican or Democrat) would follow Hunter’s advice? (Hint: in order to answer this well you need to explain what the likely repercussion to the U.S. would be for a preemptive strike, how this would affect a President’s ability to get re-elected, and to what degree a President would be influenced by this. President is being used as a general term. Do not specifically mention a President unless using an example.)