Perpetual Peace

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Perpetual Peace

• International Anarchy
• and Human Rights

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Questions Perpetual Peace

• How would Kant respond to Westphalian reasoning
  e.g. no law above states?
• What are the prerequisites for perpetual peace?
  Do they guarantee perpetual peace?
• What are the specific conditions set for the rule
  of law at the international level?
• What is the relationship between perpetual peace
  and and human rights?

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Prohibitions

• 1) No secret reservation for peace treaties
  enter into peace treaties honestly
• 2) do not impose a ruler on other states
• 3)  No standing armies
• 4)  No national debt for external affairs
• 5)  Non-interference with other sovereign states
• 6) Do as to not preclude possibility of peace
  (spies, assassins, etc)

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From state of nature to intl anarchy

• State of nature state of war
• Absence of an intl sovereign
• Impossibility (and undesirability) of an
  international state why not?
• Necessity of pacification in intl relations for
  three areas of public rights why
• For civil/political rights
• For intl rights
• For cosmopolitan rights

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Necessary Requirements

• Republican constitutions civil/political rights
  versus despotism
• Caution
• Pacific Federation international rights versus
  balance of power
• Respect
• Cosmopolitan Rights cosmopolitan rights
• versus xenophobia
• Interest

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Possibility of Perpetual Peace

• Natural Capacity
• Teleological natural reason inevitability of
  progress
• Individual Responsibility
• Moral politician versus political moralist
• Fredrick the Great enlightened despot a single
  ruler A rhetorical device agent of change
• Philosophers role
• Rule of law public discourse/deliberation civic
  engagement

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Perpetual Peace through Democratic PeaceFreedom
House Data (2005)
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