World peace

World peace is an ideal of freedom, peace, and happiness among and within all nations and/or
people. World peace is an idea of planetary non-violence by which nations willingly cooperate, either
voluntarily or by virtue of a system of governance that prevents warfare. The term is sometimes used
to refer to a cessation of all hostility amongst all humanity. For example, World Peace could be
crossing boundaries via human
rights,technology, education, engineering, medicine, diplomats and/or an end to all forms of fighting.
Since 1945, the United Nations and the 5 permanent members of its Security Council (the US,
Russia, China, France, and the UK) have worked to resolve conflicts without war or declarations of
war. However, nations have entered numerous military conflicts since that time.\

Various political ideologies[edit]

World peace is sometimes claimed to be the inevitable result of a certain political ideology."[1] Leon
Trotsky, a Marxist theorist, assumed that a proletariat world revolution would lead to world peace.[2]
Democratic peace theory[edit]
Proponents of the controversial democratic peace theory claim that strong empirical evidence exists
that democracies never or rarely wage war against each other.[3][4][5][6]
There are, however, several wars between democracies that have taken place, historically.

Capitalism peace theory[edit]

In her essay "The Roots of War," Ayn Rand held that the major wars of history were started by the
more controlled economies of the time against the freer ones and that capitalism gave mankind the
longest period of peace in historya period during which there were no wars involving the entire
civilized worldfrom the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to the outbreak ofWorld War I in 1914,
with the exceptions of the Franco-Prussian War (1870), the SpanishAmerican War (1898), and
the American Civil War (18601863), which notably occurred in perhaps the most liberal economy in
the world at the beginning of the industrial revolution.

Cobdenism[edit]
Proponents of cobdenism claim that by removing tariffs and creating international free trade wars
would become impossible, because free trade prevents a nation from becoming self-sufficient, which
is a requirement for long wars.
However, free trade does not prevent a nation from establishing some sort of emergency plan to
become temporarily self-sufficient in case of war or that a nation could simply acquire what it needs
from a different nation. A good example of this is World War I, during which both Britain and
Germany became partially self-sufficient. This is particularly important because Germany had no
plan for creating a War economy.
More generally, free tradewhile not making wars impossiblecan make wars, and restrictions on
trade caused by wars, very costly for international companies with production, research, and sales in
many different nations. Thus, a powerful lobbyunless there are only national companieswill
argue against wars.

Mutual assured destruction[edit]

Mutual assured destruction is a doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear
weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both belligerents. [7]
[8]

Proponents of the policy of mutual assured destruction during the Cold War attributed this to the

increase in the lethality of war to the point where it no longer offers the possibility of a net gain for
either side, thereby making wars pointless.