No Professional Soldiers, No Militarized Interstate Disputes?

Seung-Whan Choi and Patrick James
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Seung-Whan Choi: Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa
Patrick James: Department of Political Science, University of Missouri, Columbia

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2003, vol. 47, issue 6, 796-816

Abstract: In Perpetual Peace , Immanuel Kant presents six preliminary articles for perpetual peace before the three well-known definitive articles about republic constitutions, commercial relations, and international organizations. In his third preliminary article, Kant argues that “Standing Armies ( miles perpetuus ) Shall in Time be Totally Abolished†because they are themselves “a cause of offensive war.†Empirical results based on state-of-the-art data analysis that refers to both peace-years correction and distributed-lags logistic regression showthat the most obvious among the neglected preliminary articles by Kant—military manpower system—is indeed connected to involvement in militarized interstate disputes during the period from 1886 to 1992. For neo-Kantian peace theory and research, this means that a military manpower system with conscripted, not standing (i.e., professional or voluntary), soldiers is associated with disputes.

Keywords: neo-Kantianism; Immanuel Kant; militarized interstate disputes; military manpower system; professional and conscripted soldiers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1177/0022002703258803

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