foedus pacificum

Noun

foedus pacificum (uncountable)

1. A theoretical global league of republics that would produce world peace.
   • Moreover, the imbalance of Article 2 para. 4 and the right to self-defence is paralleled to a “significant oscillation” in Kant’s “Perpetual Peace” between the positive idea of a world-republic and the negative substitute of a foedus pacificum.2003, Klaus Dicke, “Peace Through International Law and the Case of Iraq”, in Gerhard Beestermöller, editor, Iraq: Threat and Response, →ISBN, page 21
   • But still, he argues, if Kant’s hypothesis of a foedus pacificum is correct, as Rawls believes it is, armed conflict between democratic peoples will tend to disappear as they approach the ideal of constitutional regimes.2006, Alyssa R. Bernstein, “A Human Right to Democracy? Legitimacy and Intervention”, in Raw Martin, David A. Reidy, editors, Rawls’s Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia?, page 290