DPTPR

Democratic Peace Theory. A Philosophical Reconsideration

Coordinatore	CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE    more  Organization address address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 city: ROMA postcode: 185 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Archibugi Cognome: Daniele Email: send email Telefono: 3906490000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Italy [IT]
Totale costo	306˙598 €
EC contributo	306˙598 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF
Funding Scheme	MC-IOF
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-06-06   -   2014-06-05

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE  Organization address address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 city: ROMA postcode: 185 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Archibugi Cognome: Daniele Email: send email Telefono: 3906490000000	IT (ROMA)	coordinator	306˙598.50

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'In the last three decades political philosophers, historians, and international relations scholars have widely debated the so called Democratic Peace Theory (DPT), i.e. the fact that liberal democracies have rarely, if ever, fought wars against each other, and the explanation of this fact. The root of this thesis is to be found in the essay To Perpetual Peace (1795) where Kant argued that the main cause of war is the injustice of some political institutions. Despite the impressive amount of work carried out by contemporary researchers, there is still no agreed upon definition of the thesis, no clarity on the factors relevant to explain the democratic “separate peace,” no common terrain of argumentation. We hold that a superficial knowledge of Kant's political thought led at times DPT scholars to misapprehensions that set the contemporary discussion on the wrong path. As a result, the debate seems to be deteriorating into a Lakatosian regressive research programme. The present project intends to improve this state of affairs by trying out a new methodological approach at the intersection of philosophy and social sciences. We aim at: 1) a better understanding of Kant's view of the causal factors leading to perpetual peace; 2) the identification of the causal apparatus assumed in the recent DPT literature; 3) the comparison of such apparatus with Kant's original theory; 4) the identification of those assumptions that set the contemporary debate on the wrong path, 5) a modified and improved definition of DPT, 6) an empirical check of this new defintition.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Examining the origins of democratic peace theory and combining it with modern ideas on the topic could help shape the EU's policy on international security and world democracy.