POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Democratic Peace Theory, John Stuart Mill, Robert Schuman
6 Apr 2016
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Introduction to international relations and global politics lecture #4. Classical liberal thought: progress, rationality, cooperation, modernisation, war vs. trade, democracy. Post-wwii liberal thought: functionalism, neo-functionalism & european integration theories, pluralism, complex interdependence. John locke: montesquieu, voltaire, hume, condorcet, thomas paine, progress in history, rationality, reason & science. 4: process of modernization individualism importance & possibility of cooperation. It is commerce which is rapidly rendering war obsolete, by strengthening and multiplying the personal interests which act in natural opposition to it. Democracy vs. war: wilson & liberal internationalists, kant: perpetual peace , doyle: democratic peace theory. David mitrany nationalism main cause of wwii how do you achieve peace? collective security too weak; world gov"t too strong need to bypass legal sovereignty, attack states" political sovereignty. Authority vs. power legal sovereignty: authority right to rule/govern all-or-nothing political sovereignty: power ability to rule/govern: matter of degrees. Design a solution based on the type and size of the problem: peace in parts .
