POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Democratic Peace Theory, Liberal Democracy, Perpetual Peace
9 Jun 2013
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Not very successful when war is used to impose democracy; iraq and afghanistan. Argument, the relationship between democracies, this proposition is at the core of liberalism in world politics. Liberalism call for freedom from arbitrary authority, the negative freedom of liberalism for freedom of press/speech, are at the core of liberal values. Dpt, its the nature that matters the most of the state, not the is, opposite way of realists viewing states. Realists and new realists, the system is far more than the regime of a state. Once you have these three articles, the condition for perpetual peace is established according to kant. Kant = philosophical origin, dutch = is origin. Wwii treid to transform japan and germany into democracies and in both cases it was successful, mostly to remove dictators that us didn"t want, they had a different opinion than the us, willing to use force.
