Democratic Peace
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- Democracy
- a government of the "people" usually elected through representatives and usually with a respect for individual rights in society; they share values and interests
- Democratic Peace
- Proposition strongly supported by emperical evidence that democracies almost never fight wars against each other ( although they do against authoritarian states) They are not more peaceful tnan other states but they generally will not fight each other
- Reasons For Democatic Peace
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1. capitalist states trade realtions create strong interdependence through trade relations ( would hurt trade to fight)
2. Citizens of democratic societies may not see the citizens of other democracies as enemies ( not on realist inter-state level)
- transition democries tend to still fight w/ all types of governments - Human Rights
- the universal right of human beings against certain abuses of their own government. Abuses can inflame ethnic conflicts,underlie moral norms and decency
- Universal Decleration of Human Rights
- Set international norms reguarding behavior by governments towards their own citizens and foreigners alike
- Amnesty International
- NGO that opperates globally to monitor and try to rectify glaring abuses of human rights
- publisity and pressure to help human rights
- Publicity involves someone digging up inappropriate human rights abuses; pressure of other governments threaten the punish the offender in a non-violent way- because if trade relations this punishment is rare and hardly successful ( US, CHINA)
- International Law and Realism
- International law and norms create principals for governing international relations that compete with realist principals of soverignty and anarchy; derives action from tradition and agreements signed by states depends not on power and authority but international norms, collective action and reciprocity
- Sources of international law (4)
- treaties, custom, general principals of law and legal scholarship
- reciprocity
- A respince in kind to another's action; a strategy using positive forms of leverage to promise reqards negitive leverage to threaten punishment; works only if the aggrieved state has the power to inflict costs on the violator
- reprisals
- actions that would have been illegal under international law may sometimes be legal if taken in responce to the illegal actions of another state
- Collective Responce: sanctions
- agreements amoung other states to stop trading with the violator or stop some particular commodity trade (military goods)as punishment for violation
- Uncertainties of Power
- without common expectations reguarding the rules of the game and adherrence to those rules, power along would create great instability in the anartic international system; creates expectations for behavior by states