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This contribution to a symposium on John Rawls seeks to account for why John Rawls, our age's preeminent political philosopher of egalitarian justice, ultimately endorsed a third international regime that includes many peoples establishing the rules, agreements, & accommodations required to maintain those peoples' peace when feasible & to foster mutually beneficial cooperation, while taking those steps that concern globally consensual emergencies & crises. Rawls's positions are reasonable from two perspectives; his thinking is both principled & practical, but it is not complete. Several of his broad principles might bring about less global toleration & more redistribution than the thesis in The Laws of Peoples implies. Tables. K. Coddon

Sebastian Rosato (2003) finds the logic of the "democratic peace" flawed in his "The Flawed Logic of Democratic Peace Theory," and he cites my work and other studies as examples of the flawed logic. Some of the logic he describes is flawed, and it may characterize some of the literature in the wide field of "democratic peace," but it is not the logic underlying the core of liberal peace theory. Indeed, the persuasive core of the logic underlying the theory of liberal democratic peace is missing from Rosato's account. Republican representation, an ideological commitment to fundamental human rights, and transnational interdependence are the three pillars of the explanation. The logic underlying the peace among liberal states rests on a simple and straightforward proposition that connects those three causal mechanisms as they operate together and only together, and not separately as Sebastian Rosato claims.

Argues that Kantian peace is being limited by globalization & through relations between liberal & autocratic states, & explores whether Kantian liberal peace can be sustained through increasing global interdependence. As globalization erodes the national accountability essential to republican states, countries are forced to make potentially harmful decisions, eg, the WTO enforcing the importation of unwanted genetically engineered food. Globalization has supported the widening of the divide between the wealthy & the steadily increasing number of people in poverty. Global democratization is proposed, but structural weaknesses undermine its practicality: huge disparities limit the potential for consensus on trade, development, & the environment & the lack of a unified identity constrain the formation of a union. Kant's historical compromise of "domestic liberty, republican participation, & market democracy" may be the best hope of avoiding international anarchy. L. A. Hoffman

In the wake of the Cold War, as the international community struggles to accommodate change, the author of this study directs our attention to the classic theorists, Thucydides, Rousseau, Locke and others. He explores their enduring theories, and recommends that they be applied to today's fundamental international dilemmas. Although no one school has all the answers, this analysis maintains that history has provided the theoretical tools to meet modern challenges, and that great political minds of the past can still guide modern politicians through the confusion of current events. ; https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/1243/thumbnail.jpg