The End of War: How a Robust Marketplace and Liberal Hegemony Are Leading to Perpetual World Peace

Summary

A powerful liberal global hierarchy is unwittingly, but systematically, buttressing states’ embrace of market norms and values, moving the world toward perpetual peace. States with developed market-oriented economies have foremost interests in the principle of self-determination of all states as the foundation for a robust global marketplace. War among these states is not possible because they are in a natural alliance to preserve and protect the global order. Among other states, weaker powers, fearing those that are stronger, tend to bandwagon with the relatively benign market-oriented powers.