The Democratic Peace in the Indo-Pakistani Dyad. Sathyan Sundaram, Lake Michigan College, Department of Political Science, Benton Harbor, MI 49022
Scholars have offered a number of explanations for the outbreak of war with regard to regime-type. Six hypotheses derived from works studying "the democratic peace" have been operationalized and quantitatively tested on the Indo-Pakistani dyad. This paper seeks to look at the nature of the processes that are argued to underlie of the democratic peace. Rather than finding support for all the hypotheses posited, only-freedom and nonmilitary IGO's are found to exhibit a statistically significant relationship. While freedom had …