Editing World peace (section)

=== Territorial peace theory ===
Proponents of the [[territorial peace theory]] claim that countries with stable borders are likely to develop democracy, while wars and territorial threats foster authoritarian attitudes and a disregard for democracy.<ref name="HutchisonStarr2017">{{cite book |last1=Hutchison |first1=Marc L. |title=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics |last2=Starr |first2=Daniel G. |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-022863-7 |editor1-last=Thompson |editor1-first=William R. |chapter=The Territorial Peace: Theory, Evidence, and Implications|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.285 }}</ref> Increasing attention has been paid to the theory since the early 2000s, and it has increasingly informed [[democratic peace theory]] and been espoused in the cause of [[peacebuilding]] and [[international relations]]. Proponents of democratic peace theory counter argue that stable borders resulting from dispute arbitration or negotiation rather than force via autocracy are more likely to be obtained by democratic states. Efforts are underway to synthesize the two theories.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Owsiak |first=Andrew P. |date=2019 |title=Foundations for integrating the democratic and territorial peace arguments |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0738894216650635 |journal=Conflict Management and Peace Science |language=en |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=63–87 |doi=10.1177/0738894216650635 |s2cid=156163897 |issn=0738-8942}}</ref>