POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Democratic Peace Theory, Immanuel Kant, Robert Keohane
1 Mar 2016
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Optimistic (more likely to encounter/solve problems in variable sum rather than zero sum) (realist->zero sum(only one party wins): wide analytical focus. Do not limit themselves to simply war & peace, rather they analyze a wider range of factors of the international system. Balance of power & hegemonic (realists only means of order) Liberalists believe this is false-->io"s (such as un) & regimes (int"l. Institutions) could create order & stability (research robert keohane after. Hegemony") int"l institutions continue to exists and take on own life after the hegemon that created them ceases to exists. Critiques of liberalists optimistic of human nature: uneven theory building, wishful thinking---> realists have these views for a reason---> liberalists are blindly. Engage in too much ad hoc theory building (lacks a meca-theory, such as marxism) Kant argues that in a world full of democratic states there would be no war.
