Trading Our Way out of War
Perpetual Peace without Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5084823 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrícia Vieira (0000-0002-8262-3740, University of Coimbra, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 116 |
| Issue | 116 |
| Pages | 5-22 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista crítica de ciências sociais/Revista crítica de ciências sociais (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0254-1106 • E-ISSN: 2182-7435 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/rccs.7088 |
| OpenAlex | W2885884727 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Proponents of perpetual peace have often identified politics as a problem standing in the way of peaceful relations between humans. They believed that, while politics exacerbates the differences separating nations, commerce brings human beings together. In this article, I trace the development of arguments against politics and for commerce from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. I argue that thinkers espoused an idealized view of commerce as an activity that fostered the development of a peaceful international community, while gradually eliminating economic inequalities. I also highlight how these arguments still resonate with today’s debates on globalization
Cold war · Environmental ethics · Fifteenth · Globalization · Inequality · International relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |