MODERN WARFARE, PRODUCT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PEACE DOCTRINE
MODERN WARFARE, PRODUCT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PEACE DOCTRINE

Author(s): Constantin VASILE
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: international relations; liberalism; realism; modern warfare; democratic peace; NATO
Summary/Abstract: The liberal peace is the most comprehensive and compelling challenge to the realist theories on hegemonic order and balance of power. Although the modern warfare is certainly a product of the democratic peace, conceptually scholars appreciate differently the contribution, as causality, of the differences between the Western and non-western cultures, positioning themselves in two camps pro and against in terms of assimilation of the concept of the state modernization with the liberal democratization. In the present scientific papers, we focus on qualitative thematic and comparative analysis of two of the most representative theories on the possible evolution of the international system, namely the liberal theory of Francis Fukuyama and Samuel Huntington's realist theory. The divergence of these two theories is determined by questioning the universality of Western culture values and the impact of the other non-western cultures may have on the evolution of mankind.

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