Jedno razmišljanje o teoriji demokratskog mira
Thinking about Theory of Democratic Peace

Summary/Abstract: All academics and politicians alike are sharing same view by seeing Emmanuel Kant as a father of the idea of perpetual peace and by treating him as a “main source” of Idealism as a theory of International Relations. And that is the only lowest common denominator when compared to different and sometimes, even contradicting political interpretations. One of the examples that the article tries to highlight, is very often used concept of Democratic Peace. It follows continuities and discrepancies of main benchmarks stemming from the Kant’s original idea, through the cornerstone documents that have made crucial influence on creating “new world order” in specific periods of recent history, such as Wilson’ 14 Points, Atlantic Charter and The Charter of the UN. The article finally argues that some of the key Kant’s ideas have been distorted for the purpose of sole pragmatic interests while pleading for re-reading his masterpiece placing it in historical context and drawing his root philosophical idea of peace as not just a state as a temporary historical event but as a process which inherently provides foundation for human self-fulfilling by achieving freedom, justice, and ethics in political order which reconciles politics and moral.

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