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Schuster, Matthew. "Saving Kant from Democratic Peace Theorists" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p69698_index.html>

Schuster, M. , 2005-03-05 "Saving Kant from Democratic Peace Theorists" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p69698_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: In this paper I argue that Immanuel Kant’s argument in “Perpetual Peace” is a useful theory for international relations and foreign policy. Despite the usefulness of his argument, I also argue that IR scholars have misread Kant’s argument and, subsequently, so have those who have tried to apply his theory to foreign policy. There are two sources of this problem. The first is based on a lack of a clear reading of all that Kant argues in “Perpetual Peace”. Most scholars have taken part of his argument and relied on that part alone; Kant’s argument, however, is holistic and cannot be taken in parts. The second source of this problem is with those scholars who have tried to take Kant’s theory (and any political theory for that matter) as explaining a world guided by law-like regularities. To argue against this, I use Alasdair MacIntyre‘s description of the early, renaissance, political philosopher who is often credited with first applying scientific realism to politics, Niccolo Machiavelli. Because of this argument, I am not only attempting to save Kant from liberal idealists, I want to save Machiavelli from scientific realists while undercutting scientific realism itself.

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