Abstract
The democratic peace proposition has generated the widely supported claim that democratic norms affect states' behaviour, in that democracies rarely, if ever, fight each other. Hitherto, the relationship between norms and the distribution of UN interventions among state conflicts has escaped attention. This article expands the research on state use of force by using quantitative methodology to examine the relationship between democratic norms, conflict issue and allocation of UN interventions. There is a tendency for less democratic state conflicts to experience more of these interventions than other states, as well as a tendency for state conflicts over government to experience more of these interventions than other states. That norms, rather than process, account for the effect of democracy is congruent with most findings in the democratic peace proposition.
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