korrents

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Whether a state is a democracy or an autocracy makes no difference to how it behaves abroad.

Drawn from what John Mearsheimer said

What these subjects mean

government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

democracy Elections, the losers accepting them, and the rules that keep power answerable to voters.

What John Mearsheimer actually said

  1. John Mearsheimer Political scientist at the University of Chicago
    A realist like me would say that it doesn't matter whether a state is a democracy or not, all states behave the same way because the structure of the system, getting back to our earlier discussion about international anarchy, the structure of the system leaves those states no choice, whether they're democracies or autocracies.

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