St. Joseph Church
Bristol, Connecticut

Deacon Robert M. Pallotti
Pastoral Minister

Charted Political Approaches to War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism and Socialism



 


Variants of Political Realism *


Variant: Machiavellian Fundamentalist

State of War: Domestic/International

Actors: Individuals

Source of the State of War: Ambition

Strategy of Peace: Imperialism


Variant: Hobbesian Structuralists

State of War: International/Homogeneous

Actors: States

Source of State of War: Anarchy

Strategy of Peace: Balance of Power


Variant: Rousseauian Constitutionalists

State of War: International/Heterogeneous

Actors: States

Source of State of War: Interests

Strategy of Peace: Isolation/defense/revolution

 


* Doyle, Michael W. Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism. W.W. Norton Co.,

New York, London, 1997, p. 198.


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Variants of Modern Liberalism*


Variant: Institutionalists

State of War: international homogeneous

State of Peace: "inconvenienced" uncertain, troubled

Actors: individuals

Source of State of War: prejudice misinformation

Strategy of Peace: international law


Variant: Commercialists

State of War: international heterogeneous

State of Peace: among capitalists

Actors: market/societies

Source of State of War: autocratic imperialism monopolism

Strategy of Peace: free trade, capitalist development


Variant: Internationalists

State of War: international heterogeneous

State of Peace: "pacific union" among republics

Actors: republics/nonrepublics

Source of State of War: autocratic diversion/liberal crusading

Strategy of Peace: republican enlargement


* Doyle, op. cit. p. 302


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Variants of Modern Socialism *


Variant: Marxists

State of War: international and domestic; heterogeneous between classes

State of Peace: among Socialists

Actors: classes

Source of State of War: class exploitation

Strategy of Peace: democratic revolution


Variant: Leninists

State of War: interational and domestic; heterogeneous

State of Peace: among Communists

Actors: finance capital/Communists vanguards

Source of State of War: monopoly competition "uneven development"

Strategy of Peace: war and revolution


* Doyle, op. cit. p. 366


Compiled by Deacon Robert M. Pallotti, D. Min.
Created 8/14/1998 


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