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Liberalism And Democracy

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Liberalism is a political doctrine that is based on the equality of people. A vast majority of liberal countries enjoy main freedoms that exist in the world today such as equality before the law, freedom of speech, right to a private property and many more (Doyle, Liberal Internationalism: Peace, War and Democracy, 1997). Therefore, there are barely any disputes between first world countries which embrace democracy and liberalism as the main doctrine of their governance. This essay argues about the impact of democracy towards peace and how comes peace is embraced successfully among the representatives of democracy. Following paragraphs briefly explain liberalism’s role in today’s world and society, how liberalism reflects in business, what …show more content…

Locke argued that a human gets a natural right to life, liberty and property (Locke, 2005). This statement shows that no matter where a person was born, he or she will have the same rights if he or she is in a liberal country that embraces democracy. Moreover, people living within a state have a right to elect their governments. By electing a government, people show their interest towards a representative of a certain political party and etc. By choosing a certain representative, people fully trust his or her ideas of how the country and in a broader sense how the world should be shaped. All the democratic elections should make war unthinkable because people trust their representatives that are in their governments (Doyle, Liberal Internationalism: Peace, War and Democracy, …show more content…

Many statistics show that many conflicts and disputes are between countries that do not follow principles of democracy and are not liberal. For example, until 2005 there was not a single conflict among two democratic states. However, many liberal countries have had a big number of armed conflicts with non-liberal countries (Doyle, Liberal Internationalism: Peace, War and Democracy, 1997). All disputes and conflicts happened between states that are not democratic or there were few conflicts where undemocratic state conflicted with a democratic country (Rummel, 2005). It can be assumed that most fights and anti-peaceful actions happen between illiberal and undemocratic

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