Democratic peace theory

In the citation from Perpetual Peace, Kant is explaining that commerce binds everyone together because it helps ease tension and teaches countries to compromise in ways that will meet the equilibrium for everyone. The general proposition is that popular and responsible governments would be more willing to promote peace and commerce if it were in the stream of European thought and political practice. Furthermore, he argues that the internal affairs of a state or nation are considered to be an…

Challenging the Democratic Peace Thesis, which claims that democratic regimes are “peaceful” and do not fight, Duncan Bell’s Before the democratic peace: Racial utopianism, empire and the abolition of war calls attention to the shortcomings of democratic regimes’ ability to provide an egalitarian and peaceful society, even going as far to mark democracies as war prone. Furthermore, the article engages with various strands of political theories, such as radical liberalism and socialism, which…

Arguments against the “clash of civilizations” (CoC) theory have been made by authors such as Chiozza, Henderson and Tucker. According to these authors, civilizational factors alone are insufficient in producing greater risk of conflict. Other factors such as regime-type, geographical proximity, modernization, military capabilities, Cold war blocs, and major power status affect the prospects for conflict involvement between states as well. I will focus on regime-type, geographical proximity and…

Short Answer* 1. The peace of Westphalia end the thirty Years’ War between Spain, the Dutch and parts of German sects. It set the ground for modern sovereignty because before the war, Europe was under a feudal system. The treaty outlined state sovereignty and took away the power of the church by giving power to states within their own territory. 2. The constructivist theory states that society is constructed by norms and ideas. These Norms change within a scale. This scale ‘Norm emergence,…

self-gain, with peace as the central purpose. With multilateral and bilateral agreements at the forefront of war, we must consider what the study of international relations brings forth to us, that is, the empirical law of the “democratic peace theory”. The theory suggests that democracies are reluctant to engage in armed conflict with other formally identified democracies as a way to discourage state-sponsored violence. Immanuel Kant’s work, “Perceptual Peace”, tells us that peace is a…

social-cultural norms can greatly influence in their decision to go or not to war. Conversely, to blame the break out of conflict based only on “human imperfection” can be debated. Waltz dismisses such allegations based on the uselessness of such theory, he explains that if we were to blame human nature for the acts of men then the nature of men would have to be turned around in order to “change men” and make them good. “To control rapacious men requires more force than exhortation. The simple…

Herold Just War Final Draft 21 October 2015 An Analysis of Modern Wars and the Just War Concept The concept of just war in Western Cultures goes back to thinkers like Thomas, Cicero, and Augustine. The main goal of the principles embraced in this theory was to provide fair causes to go to war and its prosecution, and not to let people be fooled by false ideals of glory. Some concepts like “proportionality”, “just cause”, and “weapons used in war must discriminate between combatants and…

The protection and human security of civilians is one of the primary purposes of the UN department of peacekeeping, yet evidence for whether or not they are actually effective in prevention of civilian deaths is a topic that has been controversially debated since the end of the cold war when peacekeeping interventions escalated. While the UN has been criticized for it’s failures, there is no doubt that some of their peacekeeping missions have been highly effective in the protection of citizen…

based on the Just War theory principles, it does not, Because, it does not include an armed conflict, and does not count with physical representation. This situation creates a challenge for the international community and policymakers. Due to the ambiguity of this issue and the problems that its creates actually in the international arena, such as the case, of 2016, United Estate’s election, where several agencies attributed to Russia’ government the cyber attack of democratic data’s bases, to…

awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in this year. Exactly three years ago, Malala Yousafzai was shot in his hometown by the Taliban, because she is struggling to achieve the goal of peace, education and equality. After she did exactly well what was needed to become healthy again, Malala published autobiography called I AM MALALA, she went on to win several awards from European Parliament Sakharov. Through the use of literary elements, Malala argues achieving the goal of peace, education and…