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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