SOCI 265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Democratic Peace Theory, Ethnic Cleansing, Thomas Friedman

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 265
• Professor: Mehri Ghazanjani

Document Summary

Hitler: mi(cid:272)hael doyle(cid:859)s - opening claim (cid:862)(cid:374)o two political de(cid:373)ocracies have ever fought agai(cid:374)st each other(cid:863) Liberalism brings you peace: qualification > liberal regimes do fight against other regimes. Immanuel kant (1724-1804) war: perpetual peace, a philosophical sketch (1795, nations that go to war to not make peace impossible. Laws today- not commit war crimes: 3 definitive articles, 1. Republicanism: the civil constitution has to be republican, people must control the executive branch of the gvmnt, who dies in war, people, so less wars if people die - not an imposition of the elites over the masses. John muller - (cid:862)europea(cid:374)(cid:859)s ha(cid:448)e lost their taste for (cid:449)ar(cid:863) - memory of ww1: eg. Treaty: similar states with similar values, geopolitical dimension, karl deutsch - security community, treaty amongst liberal states not to go to war, eu > need to become a lib state in order to join the eu -