Editing World peace (section)

===Capitalism peace theory===
{{Main|Capitalist peace}}

Capitalist, or commercial peace, forms one of the three planks of [[Kantianism|Kantian]] peace, together with [[democratic peace theory]] and institutionalist arguments for peace. Although the evidence is inconclusive, various scholars have argued for capitalist peace.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Gartzke |first1=Erik |last2=Zhang |first2=Jiakun Jack |date=2015 |title=Trade and War |url=https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199981755.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199981755-e-27 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160521081154/http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com:80/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199981755.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199981755-e-27 |archive-date=2016-05-21 |website=The Oxford Handbook of the Political Economy of International Trade |language=en |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199981755.013.27 |isbn=978-0-19-998175-5}}</ref> For instance, in her essay "The Roots of War", [[Ayn Rand]] held that the major wars of history were started by the more controlled economies of the time against the freer ones and that capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history—a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world—from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to the outbreak of [[World War I]] in 1914, with the exceptions of the [[Franco-Prussian War]] (1870), the [[Spanish–American War]] (1898), the [[Crimean War]] (1853–1856), the [[Boer Wars]] (1880–1881, 1899–1902), and the [[American Civil War]] (1861–1865).{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}