democratic peace, n.All

The Democratic peace (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Europe may owe little to democracy and much to a war that taught the continent its next round of mutual slaughter would be its last.

Democratic peace (n.) owes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠less to liberal institutions than to Europe's realization in 1945 that the next round of its old game of mutual slaughter would be the last.