Wednesday, November 28, 2007

peace through money?

A capitalist peace is a good ideal but that is all it is, an ideal. The capitalist peace has been tried before, at least in part, with the Marshall Plan. However, this plan failed as not all countries wanted to comply with all the demands of the aid. . This is what would happen again if economic peace was tried again. An economic peace would be tried but inevitably it would never work out. There would be a country, like china, that wouldn't need or want or take the help and not be crippled by needing any one else. A capitalist peace would be seen as a cry for a world dominated by a single country. This would not go well in the world of international politics and any major multi-nation institutions would start to fall apart. A capitalist peace is an ideal that can never be achieved.

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