%0 Journal Article
%T Making liberal use of Kant? Democratic peace theory and Perpetual Peace
%A Sid Simpson
%J International Relations
%@ 1741-2862
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0047117818811463
%X The work of Immanuel Kant has been foundational in modern democratic peace theory. His essay Toward Perpetual Peace gives three prescriptions for attaining peace between democracies: republican institutions, a pacific union between states, and an ethos of universal hospitality. Contemporary democratic peace theory, however, has warped the Kantian framework from which it draws inspiration: the third prescription has been gradually substituted for commerce and trade. I argue that this change in emphasis produces tensions between Perpetual Peace and the body of democratic peace theory literature it spawned. Moreover, I contend that a look back at Kant¡¯s essay sheds light on why this transformation occurred. Finally, I use this new look back at Perpetual Peace to reformulate the relationship between peace, democracy, and commerce so as to offer a new perspective on the democratic peace theory/capitalist peace theory debate
%K commerce
%K democracy
%K democratic peace theory
%K Kant
%K peace
%K trade
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0047117818811463