Meaning of foedus pacificum | Babel Free

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A theoretical global league of republics that would produce world peace.

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“Moreover, the imbalance of Article 2 para. 4 and the right to self-defence is paralleled to a “significant oscillation” in Kant’s “Perpetual Peace” between the positive idea of a world-republic and the negative substitute of a foedus pacificum.”

“But still, he argues, if Kant’s hypothesis of a foedus pacificum is correct⟳, as Rawls believes it is, armed conflict between democratic peoples will tend⟳ to disappear⟳ as they approach⟳ the ideal of constitutional regimes.”

“The other face⟳ of the foedus pacificum, in other words, is a democratic war theory, an account of how and why republics will fight⟳ wars and a recognition that such wars may be very fierce and very frequent until such time as the foedus pacificum covers the earth.”

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