Democracy

More empirical evidence against the democratic peace thesis

June 15, 2005 @ 9:33 pm

Last semester I took a political science seminar on international conflict. I wanted to learn more about international conflict. I blogged about it here, here, and here. Unfortunately, the class was oriented primarily around mainstream (i.e., empirical and quantitative) political science, so I didn’t learn as much as I would have liked. Everything I learned [...]

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Hamilton vs. Kant on War and Peace

April 6, 2005 @ 3:03 pm

Here’s an interesting excerpt from Federalist #6, written by Alexander Hamilton, that directly contradicts Immanuel Kant’s famous argument for what is today called the democratic peace thesis. For Kant it was a republican peace, but he thought that a combination of republics, international trade, and international laws and organizations would be necessary for bringing about [...]

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Triangulating Peace? Or, Two Foundations for Oppression?

March 6, 2005 @ 11:11 pm

The following is the rough draft of a reaction paper for my (empirically and quantitatively oriented) international conflict seminar. Please forgive the rather terse arguments. I was limited by space and time constraints as well as the fact that my professor does not share my anarcho-capitalist and epistemological views. Hopefully it is not so radical [...]

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