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Immanuel Kant, IR Theory's Big Bang, and the Pursuit of Perpetual Peace
Abstract
Florence is the birthplace of politics as an academic discipline; Niccolo Machiavelli published his Prince there in 1532, which has had a considerable impact on the development of our discipline. However, the suggestion that Aberystwyth is the birthplace of international relations is hardly convincing, for it is where E. H. Carr worked on The Twenty Years' Crisis: 1919–1939, which undermined the idealism of our discipline. This chapter asserts that the Big Bang that defined our most noble aims occurred much earlier, in Königsberg in 1795, thanks to Immanuel Kant, who expanded our scientific horizons with the belief that we should pursue enduring peace among nations. This was not a naïve assumption that economic incentives liberate social reality from warmongers but rather a clever project of republican values discouraging humanity from waging wars. Nonetheless, some overlook the pragmatic essence of the Kantian project.
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