The main themes of Waltz’s article are democracy, interdependence, and institutions, which is the foundation that aids the idealists' stands for an international system of nations, and subsequently, in their view, an idyllic global system of governance. With democracy, Waltz poses that democracy does oppose each other, and then again shows that they ultimately do. He provides example like the World War I, and the US against Latin American and the democratically elected governments in the Dominican Republic and Chile within the last century.
Waltz insinuates that democracies are not peaceful they may deliberately provoke war against non-democracies. Waltz argues that powerful states believe their own goals are right and just. According to Waltz, only changes of the international political system which are, changes that would render international politics as we know it obsolete would require new thinking and correct the behavior of the states. Waltz views international politics, the spread of democracy, increased national interdependence, and the changing role of international institutions and sees that nothing has changed causing these states to change their national interests to international concerns. None of these contributed to the …show more content…
While the liberal democratic systems may not fight one another, it does not remove all the causes of war that arise from structural anarchy. The powerful states in the 20th century have been democracies example, the United Kingdom and the United States, and a lot was achieved through peace. Democracies will use war to try and democratize other countries when there is no external authority. Democratic peace theorists fail to see the truth that the causes of war lay within and in the state system. Waltz suggests that democracies solely do not attack their kind, though they will attack non-democracies seemingly at
Waltz insinuates that democracies are not peaceful they may deliberately provoke war against non-democracies. Waltz argues that powerful states believe their own goals are right and just. According to Waltz, only changes of the international political system which are, changes that would render international politics as we know it obsolete would require new thinking and correct the behavior of the states. Waltz views international politics, the spread of democracy, increased national interdependence, and the changing role of international institutions and sees that nothing has changed causing these states to change their national interests to international concerns. None of these contributed to the …show more content…
While the liberal democratic systems may not fight one another, it does not remove all the causes of war that arise from structural anarchy. The powerful states in the 20th century have been democracies example, the United Kingdom and the United States, and a lot was achieved through peace. Democracies will use war to try and democratize other countries when there is no external authority. Democratic peace theorists fail to see the truth that the causes of war lay within and in the state system. Waltz suggests that democracies solely do not attack their kind, though they will attack non-democracies seemingly at