Fear and foreign policy on defective democracies

This study focuses on the relationship between fear and conflict on foreign policy. The mail idea of this study is that unlike liberal democracies, defective democracies have a fear motivation regarding the distribution of economic prosperity. To understand and analyze this motivation, arbitrary distribution of state's resources, corruption and lack of transparency, crony-capitalism level are considered as intervening variables. Unchecked governments which have maximum level of these factors are defined as independent variables. Conflict/dispute number of liberal and defective democracies are studied as dependent variables. Finally, this dissertation shows that liberal democracies which have checked governments, low arbitrary distribution, corruption, and crony capitalism level are more inclined to pursue peaceful foreign policies while defective democracies which have high arbitrary distribution, corruption and crony capitalism level are more inclined to pursue aggressive foreign policies. Keywords: Fear, Defective Democracies, Corruption, Conflict, Liberalism