Supplementing Hayek’s Vision of Interstate Federalism

Insights from Deudney’s Philadelphian System

by Vikash Yadav


What are the conditions under which a federation or union of liberal states is possible in the international system?

This question preoccupied Friedrich Hayek’s thinking on international relations from the nineteen-thirties onward as he looked to revive liberalism and ease the political frictions that were convulsing through Europe.


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Vikash Yadav is Professor of International Relations at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Send him mail.