Democratic Peace

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Democracy

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a government of the "people" usually elected through representatives and usually with a respect for individual rights in society; they share values and interests

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Democratic Peace

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Proposition strongly supported by emperical evidence that democracies almost never fight wars against each other ( although they do against authoritarian states) They are not more peaceful tnan other states but they generally will not fight each other

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Reasons For Democatic Peace

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1. capitalist states trade realtions create strong interdependence through trade relations ( would hurt trade to fight)
2. Citizens of democratic societies may not see the citizens of other democracies as enemies ( not on realist inter-state level)
- transition democries tend to still fight w/ all types of governments

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Human Rights

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the universal right of human beings against certain abuses of their own government. Abuses can inflame ethnic conflicts,underlie moral norms and decency

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Universal Decleration of Human Rights

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Set international norms reguarding behavior by governments towards their own citizens and foreigners alike

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Amnesty International

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NGO that opperates globally to monitor and try to rectify glaring abuses of human rights

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publisity and pressure to help human rights

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Publicity involves someone digging up inappropriate human rights abuses; pressure of other governments threaten the punish the offender in a non-violent way- because if trade relations this punishment is rare and hardly successful ( US, CHINA)

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International Law and Realism

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International law and norms create principals for governing international relations that compete with realist principals of soverignty and anarchy; derives action from tradition and agreements signed by states depends not on power and authority but international norms, collective action and reciprocity

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Sources of international law (4)

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treaties, custom, general principals of law and legal scholarship

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reciprocity

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A respince in kind to another's action; a strategy using positive forms of leverage to promise reqards negitive leverage to threaten punishment; works only if the aggrieved state has the power to inflict costs on the violator

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reprisals

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actions that would have been illegal under international law may sometimes be legal if taken in responce to the illegal actions of another state

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Collective Responce: sanctions

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agreements amoung other states to stop trading with the violator or stop some particular commodity trade (military goods)as punishment for violation

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Uncertainties of Power

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without common expectations reguarding the rules of the game and adherrence to those rules, power along would create great instability in the anartic international system; creates expectations for behavior by states