Citation

ROY D. J. Peace Res. 1993; 30(4): 451-453.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0022343393030004007

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Georg Sorensen's (1992) article on the tendency of democracies to avoid wars with each other reaffirms Kant's notion of a 'pacific union' of liberal states and argues that mainstream neorealism can accommodate such a phenomenon Despite Sorensen's reinterpretation, however, the Kantian argument remains dubious, and the inside-out approach to explaining peace among democracies runs counter to a fundamental neorealist premise.