session: 23 democratic peace thesis.

While liberalism is one of the most prominent theories of International relations, it is evident that the theory is influential when it addresses the international issues and seems to be weak when addressing domestic issues. 

liberalism  identifies two types of freedom. It goes on taking freedom from arbitrary authority to ensure freedom of speech and freedom of will. Taking freedom from authority is regarded as "negative freedom" and freedom of speech is usually regarded as "positive freedom"

.Liberalism is inclined towards idealism which is a very good thing, however, it fails to address the conflict in its own proposition. For instance, right to property can undermine right to equality of opportunity. Thus, failure to address the conflict, shows its weakness to address the domestic issue which it portrays.

Regarding the liberal democratic peace thesis of Kant, with sufficient instances to prove that liberal states don't fight, Kant has established that liberalism is able to address the issues in international relations. The reason for the peace and cooperation within these units follows from the argument that liberal states provide traders with safe and profitable trade linkages without intervention of state. This would enable states to flourish economically and become stable. with trade as the basic mode to achieve economic success, other states might also benefit from it resulting in dependence of each on one another. Since the trade is profitable, people of both countries would not to be involved in war which would hinder the future aspects of growth for both countries. So in my opinion, the idea of democratic peace thesis holds.

With this piece, and some crucial points to consider, we can establish that liberalism is a good theory at addressing international issue of maintaining peace.

~Uzair Mujeeb