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Title page 1

Contents 3

Executive summary 4

Introduction 5

I. Democratic peace theory 5

II. Democratic alliance theory 6

III. Freedom, prosperity, and alliances-empirics 8

IV. Implications for US foreign policy and strategy 12

V. Policy recommendations 13

Conclusion 14

Data annex 15

Tables 9

Table 1. Alliances led by nondemocracies tend not to have any democratic members 9

Table 2. The vast majority of high freedom countries are allied with one another 10

Table 3. The overwhelming majority of wealthy countries are allied with one another 11

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Democratic peace theory holds that democracies do not go to war with other democracies.

What can be called the democratic alliance hypothesis posits that democracies are more likely to form alliances or coalitions with other democracies, while democracies rarely join alliances or coalitions led by nondemocratic powers.

The Freedom and Prosperity Indexes suggests that the more prosperous and democratic a country is, the less likely it is to ally with any major (or minor) nondemocratic power.

If both democratic peace theory and the democratic alliance hypothesis are true, this will have important implications for US foreign policy.

The last section lays out the rationale for US foreign policy lending support to democratization.