Capitalist Peace

Capitalists believe in the creation of money and capital and investing the money in various businesses to promote the development of the nations. They also allow the private sectors to own property, rather than being owned by central governing bodies. Capitalist nations have developed ways of enhancing peace among the member states using different policies and theories. The capitalist aspects that enhance peace and reduce the possibilities of war are investment, capital openness, specialization, international trade, and division of labor.
The observation of the capitalist is persuasive in their faces due to several reasons. The countries have formed many alliances amongst them. These institutions assist the member states in cooperating in regards to the military activities in the case of a fight. Specific standards of conducts or expectations about the way members should act have been established by these alliances to control their behaviors in certain situations (Robinson 350). Capitalists economies have, for example, arrange bargains between them, which resolve distributional concerns, including settling disagreements that might come in their way of collaboration or stating the extent of the contribution of each member state to the common venture. Similarly, the alliances formed by these economies are defensive in nature. This implies that the capitalist countries promise to join to each other’s protection in the circumstance that any of them is attacked. As a result, the countries cannot fight with each other but against an enemy country, which is not a capitalist member (Robinson 351).

For example, the United States has established a defensive alliance with Canada, Japan, and South Korea, which enables it to ask for support in case it is attacked. The other countries, such as Canada, can, in turn, ask for aid, but they are not allowed to fight with the capitalist counterparts.
Similarly, the peace theory is also persuasive in the face of the capitalists. Capitalists have established certain practices that ensure that there is no war between the developed capitalist nations. One of the aspects is that the citizens of the member states are allowed to own private property. They can exchange through buying and selling of the resources from and to the citizens of other countries. The governments do not dictate the terms and conditions used by the citizens involved in the trade. Free market influences of demand and supply determine the prices for exchanging the property, as opposed to the central controlling organization (Robinson 354). Thus, peace is encouraged, and no individual country is involved in the war with others. Again, free capital markets exist. The aspect claims that countries with a great extent of capital openness can prevent war with one another and keep a permanent peace among them. Particularly, capitalist countries have free capital markets and are more reliant on international investors from other capitalist economies (McDonough, Reich and Kotz 29). As a result, war is avoided because the investors are more probable to pull out of the engagement if the nation is involved in a conflict or international war. The leaders of the capitalist nations prevent the concern of conflicts by enabling higher scales of capital openness, forcing the capitalist states to be more peaceful. Ultimately, the capitalists’ peace is enhanced by the size of the governments. Capitalism works on the premise that smaller governments are more reliant on increasing taxes for battling wars than socialists or larger governments (McDonough, Reich and Kotz 30). The smaller governments are more credible in regards to their dedications, enabling the smaller government Nations, and, therefore, capitalist countries, to be better prepared for preventing wars or conflicts.
The capitalist peace policy is also persuasive in the face of the capitalists. The policy suggests that raising the level of specialization in the production and organizations, international trade, division of labor, investment, and advancement of nations from poor to rich will significantly reduce the chance of war between states involved (McDonough, Reich and Kotz 33). The capitalists have established the environments and policies that support the international trade among the member states. Also, each county involved in the trade have been allowed to specialize in the production and export t of products and services with which it has the greatest levels of expertise and capabilities to produce. Capitalism also believes in the purchase and selling of resources and investing the money obtained in other business and creating job opportunities for the citizens of the member states (McDonough, Reich and Kotz 34).  The investment also contributes to the development of the nations, making them advance from being poor to rich. All these policies have a direct impact on the member states’ peace situation. As a result, they reduce the likelihood of war among nations.
Capitalist Peace observation, theory, and policy are persuasive in the face of the capitalists because these aspects have been effective in promoting peace and preventing or controlling war between member states. The alliances developed by the nations help promote peace and allow the nations to support each other in the events of a conflict or attack by other nonmember nations. Thus, they rarely fight one another. Also, the international trade and capital openness as enhanced by the capitalist are ways of preventing wars between the developed capitalist nations. Ultimately, the likelihood of war between member states can be reduced by increasing the investment level, specialization, and developing the nations from being poor to rich.

Works Cited
McDonough, Terrence, Michael Reich, and David M. Kotz. Contemporary Capitalism and its Crises: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the 21st Century. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Robinson, William I. “Global Capitalism Theory and the Emergence of Transnational Elites.” Critical Sociology 38.3 (2012): 349-363.