Scott Burchill, Liberalism, in
Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, Jack
Donnelly, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit and Jacqui True, Theories of
International Relations, third edition, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2005
War, democracy and free trade
Prospects
for peace
61
(...) Recent conflicts in the Balkans, Central Asia and the
Persian Gulf – all involving major industrial powers – are a reminder that the
post-Cold War period remains volatile and suggest that war may not yet have
lost its efficacy in international diplomacy. None of these constitutes
conflicts between democratic states but they are no less important to the
maintenance of world order.
Human
rights
70
(...) The protection of Christian minorities at risk in Europe and in the
Orient in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the Treaty of
Kucuk-Kainardji (1774) and the Treaty of Berlin (1878) are also part
of the same legal precedent, as is the advocacy of British Prime Minister
Gladstone in the second half of the nineteenth century and US President Wilson
early in the twentieth century.