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Explaining War and Peace: Kant and Liberal IR Theory

Liberal IR theory accepts as axiomatic that the domestic "nature" of the state "is a key determinant" of its "behaviour" toward other states.1 This assumption rests on the centrali ty within liberal political thought of the view that peace is a quality achieved by civil societies within states, while the external world of relations between states remains an arena of, at least potential, conflict.2 Within recent IR thought however, there has been a growing acknowledgment of the need to question this boundary, evinced by growing interest in questions of identity that cut across the divide between the domestic and international realms.3 Nevertheless, the boundary between "inside" and "outside" of an exclusive community of citizens within and a potentially threatening world of hostile states