RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY Cover Image

CORELAŢIA ÎNTRE DEMOCRAŢIE ŞI SECURITATEA NAŢIONALĂ ŞI INTERNAŢIONALĂ
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Author(s): Dorel BUSE
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: democracy; national security; foreign policy; international system; international security; universal peace; war

Summary/Abstract: The idea of democracy as a source of world peace appeared relatively late in political (Western) thought and is consistently attributed to German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Later, Rudolf Rummel and Michael Doyle are the authors of two major variants of democratic pacifism on the one hand the general or monadic version, whose argument advocates a general/ absolute pacifism of democracies, regardless of domestic partners or opponents of the regime, on the other hand, dyadic or relational version that refers to a separate peace between democracies, while maintaining the bellicose nature of democraties in relation to nondemocraties. Thus, it is important that civil society organisations actively supervise institutions of power and peacefully challenge them.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 78-89
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian
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