DOI: https://doi.org/10.36347/sjahss.2025.v13i11.005

Pages: 476-485

To meet the demands of external intervention, the United States has developed a series of intervention discourse systems. The pro-democratic intervention discourse system is one of them. The research on the pro-democratic intervention of the United States is generally based on international law, especially from the perspective of the formation of customary international law. Rarely is there research conducted from the perspective of the development of the discourse system. The goal of this study is to place the pro-democratic intervention of the United States within the framework of the intervention discourse system, and to reveal the theoretical basis and development process of the pro-democratic intervention discourse system. The theoretical basis of the pro-democratic intervention discourse system is the democratic peace theory. Its development has gone through several stages, including from the theory of self-determination to the theory of people’s sovereignty, to the theory of invited intervention and the theory of legitimate government. The pro-democratic intervention discourse system of the United States is not an international norm, but rather a set of intervention logic of the United States.