Résumé:
The current study aims at investigating the Democratic Peace Theory in essence and its
relation to United States interventions following the September 9th ,2001 attacks on the
world trade center in New York City. It introduces the concept of The Democratic Peace
Theory which is rooted in the work of Immanuel Kant in 1795. It offers a descriptive
account to the theory‟s statement being one of the most important international relations
regulations asserting that democratic states are less likely to go to war with each other.
The study discovers the relationship between democracy and peace and draws upon the
significance of democracy leading to and causing peace. It offer insights into The United
States striving to spread democracy worldwide and farther explains its foreign policy and
the most significant incident that elaborated its foreign policy principle of democracy
promotion, thus the 9/11 attacks. The case study that is prominent to US attempts at
„democracy promotion‟ is Iraq: “Operation Iraqi Freedom”, 30th March 2003. The study
also concludes that the U.S allegedly prioritized its democracy promotion in order to
tackle the problem of terrorism, the call for democracy in Iraq didn‟t meet with the
primary goal of “peace”, it rather left it with destruction and chaos. The Democratic
Peace Theory was used by the USA as a justification for the invasion of Iraq, yet this
theory didn‟t uphold the enforcement of democracy nor taking military actions to preserve
it. Invoking the propositions of the DPT to justify the use of destructive force under the
pretext of spreading democracy is, therefore, baseless and unjust.