Why is the Number of Liberal States Increasing?
Why is the Number of Liberal States Increasing?

Summary/Abstract: Michael Doyle, in his well-known article „Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs“ stated Kantian reasons for the empirical finding that liberal states are not prone to waging wars among themselves, but did not explain his other empirical finding about the rise of the number of liberal states during the last two centuries. This article tries to supplement Doyle’s argumentation exactly on this issue, offering reasons for increase of number of liberal states - again on the basis of Kant’s political philosophy. Particular attention in this context is paid not only to Kant’s understanding of „eternal peace“, but also to his concept of „ethic community“ developed in the work Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft).

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