To accept, therefore, that democratic freedom is inherently most peaceful, is to the value-relativist, to say the unacceptable-that it is better. In some cases this rejection has turned to outright hostility and particularly anti-Americanism, and thus opposition to American values, such as freedom. Socialism aside, there also has been a rejection of Western values, of which individual freedom is prominent, and acceptance of some form of value-relativism (thus, no political system is better than any other). Many intellectuals, and in particularly European and Third World peace researchers, have come to believe that socialist equalitarianism is the answer to violence others, particularly American liberals, believe that if the socialist are wrong, then at least democracies are no better than other political systems in promoting peace. In part this has been due to the intellectual defection of Western intellectuals from classical liberalism to some variant of socialism, with its emphasis on the competitive violence and bellicosity of capitalist freedoms. That democracy is inherently peaceful is now probably believed by no more than a few prominent peace researchers. Known for centuries, a tenet of classical liberalism, the pacific nature of democracy has became largely forgotten or ignored in the last half-century. Recent theoretical and empirical research confirms the first answer: those political systems that maximize and guarantee individual freedom (democracies) are least violence prone those that maximize the subordination of all individual behavior to state control (totalitarian systems) the most, whether socialist or not and wars do not occur between democracies. Īre political systems related to collective violence and war? This is now fundamentally answered in one of three ways: yes, democracies are least violence prone yes, socialist equalitarianism assures peace and no, political systems and violence are unrelated. fundamentally a question of the establishment of democratic institutions throughout the world. 4: War, Power, Peace (see e.g., Propositions 16.11 and 16.27īy the end of the eighteenth century a complete liberal theory of international relations, of war and peace, had. "Democracies ARE less warlike than other regimes" "Libertarian Propositions on Violence Within and Between Nations: A Test Against Published Research Results" "Libertarianism, Violence Within States, and the Polarity Principle" "Libertarianism and International Violence" Q & A On Democracies Not Making War on Each Other "Freedom of the press-A Way to Global Peace" "The rule of law: towards eliminating war" "Waging denuclearization and social justice through democracy" Other Democratic Peace Documents On This Site
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