Low-authoritarian groups avoid war entirely in simulated global politics

Evidence

Regions set to work on their individual problems. Swords were converted into plowshares, as the number of armies in the world dropped. No wars occurred during the simulation, and no threats of war were ever made (although the North American Elite proposed the idea to his compatriots, I later discovered). — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1714

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs against the nuclear-weapons finding two paragraphs earlier — the same group disarms armies yet clings to nuclear arms, a telling asymmetry worth pondering.