Are authoritarian states more able to resort to the use of violence than democracies to fulfill their foreign policy aims?

Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 17 von 20 (A), University of St Andrews (Department of IR), course: IR 1006, language: English, abstract: To begin it is necessary to clarify the title of this essay. As the question treats foreign policy aims, violence in this context is to be seen as the use of coercive...