International Law - Arguments for Peace - Past Exam, Exams of Political Science

Download International Law - Arguments for Peace - Past Exam and more Exams Political Science in PDF only on Docsity! ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMESTER TWO EXAMINATIONS ACADEMIC YEAR 2008/2009 IP39320 ARGUMENTS FOR PEACE Time Allowed: Two Hours Answer TWO questions from the list below 1. What are the main assumptions of Grotius and Vattel’s account of international law and do they contradict each other? 2. Does the early modern view of international law, as exemplified by Vattel and Ayala, encourage war? 3. Is Kant’s title to his book Towards Perpetual (or Eternal) Peace intended as a joke? 4. How is Kant able to add a secret article to his treaty for lasting peace? To what does the article refer and how does Kant excuse it? 5. How, according to Kant, does a republican constitution differ from a democratic one and how can such a constitution contribute to peace? 6. Is history on Kant’s side in helping to bring about harmony, as he maintains is possible in his writings on history and politics? 7. What kind of international federation does Kant have in mind to bring about lasting peace? Will this federation necessarily tend towards world government? 8. Critically examine the alternative peace theory that John Rawls proposes in his Law of Peoples. 9. Does a viable peace theory have to rule out the idea of a ‘just war’? 10. Is the ‘political moralist’ (Perpetual Peace) Appendix 1 right to separate morality from politics?