International Relations Theory

  1. How would a government decide which genocides to stop? Consider Mao’s killing of 80,000,000, or Stalin’s killing of 10,000,000 before WWII. Should the US invaded China or the USSR to stop them?

  2. Who in the government makes the value judgement to decide on the parameters and definitons for the “should?”

  3. Is genocide a term, like terrorism, that is merely in the eyes of the beholder? E.g. George Washington was seen as an insurgent in the eyes of the British Crown, Lenin seen as a liberator to those who were not slaughtered, etc.

  4. Would more governement killing (the intervention to stop genocide) stop other government killing (the genocide)?

  5. Is the US Government the best government to intervene in stopping genocide? What might the perspective of an American Indian be?

I find it funny that the topicstarters asks a question on schools of thought that study International Relations between states (in the hic and nunc) (i.e. descriptive) and that people answer with the normative libertarian thoughts.

Anyway; I don’t have a clear view on either schools so I don’t know.

Thanks for proving my point.

He’s not asking ‘what do you think about what IR ought to be’ but what free market libertarians/austrian school thinks of the theories that are used to analyse IR. Hence; him giving a wiki link to the realist and liberal school of IR.

I didn’t.

Ok.

Well they are for a final arbiter, the international system is anarchic, oh noes!

They’re for peace too. World government, no more wars! “Peace”!

What steps?

First world central bank. Then world government. - If you want Hoppe’s awesome lecture on this, search or I can go digging. [:)]