POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Bush Doctrine, Thomas Hobbes, Transnationalism
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Date: march 26th, 2019: kant"s essay perpetual peace , russett"s theory of democratic peace, the realist critique of the democratic peace, more specific criticisms of russett"s theory, the political consequences of democratic peace in the bush doctrine . But under a constitution where the subject is not a citizen, and which is therefore not republican, it is the simplest thing in the world to go to war. He can thus decide on war, without any significant reason, as a kind of amusement. Continents distant from each other can enter into mutual peaceful relations which may eventually be regulated by public laws, thus bringing the human race nearer and nearer to a cosmopolitan constitution. Fight we are referring to a lower-level conflict) U. s. president woodrow wilson, just after world war 1: the world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
