The book Homogeneous Politics, addressing the homogeneity of the political theory governing a state, was published in 2021 by Hoghooghyar Press.
Preface
In response to the question concerning the relationship between domestic and foreign policy, each tradition in international relations offers its own perspective. Realists, guided by their pragmatic framework, contend that since all governing systems possess a minimum of rationality and a maximum of self-interest, their internal governance—irrespective of how they manage their populace, political forces, or domestic power structures—results in relatively uniform behavioral logic on the international stage. Consequently, at the systemic (international) level of analysis, there is no need to address domestic policy issues, and the two should be considered independent domains. The second major perspective, Kantian idealism, driven by the goal of establishing a global government, views domestic and foreign policy not only as mutually influential but as essentially a single entity. The third theory, grounded in Grotius’s rationalism and the framework of international law he constructed, moderates this issue. From this theory, a dynamic can be derived that, amidst the coexistence of liberal and non-liberal states, gradually manifests mechanisms such as liberal democratic peace. This mechanism is rooted in both the calculating rationality assumed by realism and the liberal values of idealism, thereby justifying the interactions among states and their transformations within its theoretical framework.
