“World Peace” in International Relations Thought: A Comparison of Immanuel Kant and Zhao Tingyang Philosophy

Abstract

To challenge widely accepted claims regarding irreconcilability of the Western and Non-Western traditions in International Relations thought, this study aims to make a comparison on the concept of ‘world peace’ in Immanuel Kant’s enlightenment philosophy and Zhao Tingyang’s modern interpretation of ancient Chine’s tianxia philosophy. In accordance with this purpose, first it focuses to shedding a light on the main notions of these two cosmopolitan world views. With a departure from these notions, it searches the main principles of world peace in these two perspectives. As a result of this normative comparison, it makes an original theoretical contribution to International Relations literature which meets and reconciles Chinese thought with Western thought on the concept of ‘world peace’.

Keywords

Non-western International Relations Theories, Cosmopolitanism, Tianxia, Peace Studies, Chinese Thought

Citation

Çoban Oran, Filiz and Pekcan, Cemre, “World Peace in International Relations Thought: A Comparison of Immanuel Kant and Zhao Tingyang Philosophy“, International Relations, Volume 14, Issue 55, 2017, pp. 3-18.

Affiliations

• Filiz ÇOBAN ORAN, Assist. Prof. Dr., Department of International Relations, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
• Cemre PEKCAN, Assist. Prof. Dr., Department of International Relations, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University