🔴 Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace

“Instead of one world community, the European overseas powers had created what the French philosopher and economist the Marquis de Mirabeau described in 1758 as “a new and monstrous system” that vainly attempted to combine three distinct types of political association (or, as he called them, esprits): domination, commerce, and settlement. The inevitable conflict that had arisen between these had thrown all the European powers into crisis. In Mirabeau’s view, the only way forward was to abandon both settlement and conquest especially conquest in favor of commerce.”

Anthony Pagden; Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace. Daedalus 2005; 134 (2): 46–57. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/0011526053887301

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