A Contrastive Analysis between Chinese and the World Western Peaceful Development Concepts——the Concepts of “Democratic Peace Theory” and “Harmonious World”

The Theory of Democratic Peace is one of the contemporary International relation theories in the Western world. Through some domestic elements, such as domestic politics structure, popular will, and decision-making mechanism, this theory intends to look into the causes of the long-term peace after the World War II in the west world. However, scientifically speaking, the logic ratiocination of it is not tight. It excessively emphasizes the function of democratic system, and it ignores other elements. Thus, this theory is not tight one. Recently, the leaders of China constantly propose brand-new theory, a Harmonious At the same time, this new theory has gained great attentions and favorable comments. In this paper, through theoretical researches, I am going to give some analyses and comparisons about peace concepts in China and Western World.