POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Perpetual Peace, Wage War, Social Democracy
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Us vs. them , assumption behind borders, brings ideas that justice is relative not absolute liberal ideas may be source of restraint at home, but sometime a cause of crusade; e. g. bush human rights crusade to the middle east. Sudan has been indicted by that court for crimes against humanity, but nothing has been happening, no attempt to arrest parshir, clearly there is a contradiction in the gap b/t criminal court indicting the president of. Premise of making things better through dialogue even though you can"t talk to people in that regime because of their non-liberal regimes, dilemma that leaders face. Double standard critique has been made, and cannot be solved, shows the limit of liberal regimes in world affairs, e. g. why intervene in a certain place but not another. 2 always say that they may be friends now, tomorrow they may become my enemies, and enemy of my enemy are my friends, and this construction can always change,