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Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC, Rome):
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Argued against imperialism and pillage of foreign lands as being a poison that would destabilize and destroy the Roman Republic
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Jus ad bellum (Just cause for war)
Jus in bello (Just action during war) |
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St. Augustine of Hippo
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First Christian discussions of Just War Theory
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Thomas Aquinas
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First Medieval discussion of Just War Theory
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Hugo Grotius
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Natural Law gives rise to International Law.
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there should be limitations on how princes act during wars, so he came up with some guidelines of what were acceptable behaviors during wars.
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Samuel Pufendorf
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Even pagans and Muslims can detect a natural law due to common grace. Starts the secularization of the concept of natural law and of international law.
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Humanism
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Since man is naturally good, man is therefore perfectible via good education, good moral teachings, a socially just environment and a socially just economy.
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Therefore, as the ultimate being in the universe, man can and must create his own morality.
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Goal of socialism
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eliminate all evils: racism, chauvinism against women, illiteracy, poverty, even mental illness and homosexuality! The goal was to produce “the New Soviet Man”, Homo Sovieticus.
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Atheism in French Intelligensia
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The French Revolutionaries promised liberation and freedom under secular humanism, but in the Napoleonic wars they brought many wars with huge death tolls and the conquest and oppression of all who were not French or French allies.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Rousseauan State of Nature, in which conflict only happens because of shortages or competition, not because of malice
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Because the “general will” of the people will bring about the ultimate good of man for the perfecting of both society, and therefore the perfecting of man, any means necessary were acceptable, including destroying all individuals that stood in the way of man’s happiness. Thus, Rousseau was the founder of totalitarian ideology, and both Nazism and Communism were his direct descendants.
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Immanuel Kant
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He asserted that durable, worldwide peace is possible if all the world were ruled by constitutional republics and good moral education.
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Karl Marx
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His philosophy was a radical departure from liberalism, since he denounced democracy as being simply a tool for the rule of the rich.
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radical humanist, however, and he believed that world peace was possible, but only after a violent, global revolution against the rich, which would destroy capitalism and create a united, worldwide socialist government that would eliminate war, poverty, disease, etc.
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What kind of democratic peace did Han von Metternich advocate?
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Monarchist Peace
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What kind of democratic peace did classical liberals advocate?
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Utopian Humanist Peace
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What kind of democratic peace did the popes advocate?
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Roman Catholic Peace - Pax Christi
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President Woodrow Wilson.
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14 Points and League of Nations
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Psychological theories
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to explain the foreign policies of the many “bad guys” of world politics implicitly or explicitly assume that dysfunctional families produce dysfunctional children who become dysfunctional leaders with dysfunctional foreign policies
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They are much more plausible for explaining the behavior of dictators who have no checks and balances… do not do well to explain western leaders who have to answer to Parliaments, parties, etc.
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Hyperparsimony
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trying to explain too many results with too few causes; trying to explain too much with just one or two variables.
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Frank Billings Kellog
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American Secretary of State (1925-1929 under President Coolidge) and Republican Senator from Minnesota. Co-Authored the 1927 Kellogg-Briand Pact, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1929.
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Kellog-Briand Pact (1927)
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Treaty promised "the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy." Originally planned as a non-Aggression pact between the US and France, Kellogg purposely watered it down by including many other nations.
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Meyer's ramblings on appeasement
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The trick is to know when appeasement will prevent war, and when appeasement will actually increase the size and severity of a war, as the aggressor uses the concessions to become stronger and stronger, and to demand even more.
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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlaine
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The Classic Liberal: Proclaimed “Peace For Our Time” with Hitler via the capitulation of the Munich Pact.
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Prime Minister of France Eduard Daladier
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Appeaser of Hitler.
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Jean Monnet
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Another founding father of European Integration; neo-liberal institutionalism
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Robert Schuman
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French Prime Minister and Foreign Minister:. The Father of European Integration.
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