The Thorny Path to Eternal Peace: Applying Kant's Ideas to the Global Situation

The following essay introduces the idea of eternal peace as Immanuel Kant conceptualised it and how it relates to the contemporary global society. Kant´s political philosophy still covers a wide range of current issues. He envisioned, for example, “a center of federative union for other States to attach themselves to” as a precondition for perpetual peace. We can ask in how far the EU can serve as…