Duetch and Negation

A common theme of this blog has been IR scholars and the question of, conversion or negation.

This question is alive and well in Duetch's book. Though Duetch speaks about the option of "pluralism" I think a close reading of his book "Political Community and the North Atlantic Area" reveals that, like Kant, Duetch--and his empirical method--is unable to imagine a world with out war without first conversion or negation. Like all blog posts, this would be better as a 20 page well fleshed out essay. However, I will try to briefly outline my arguments below.

Duetch finds that peace can be achieved though integration of two kinds, amalgamated and pluralistic.

Duetch provides two essential pre-conditions for both.

1) Compatibility of Major Values
2) Mutual responsiveness.

This presents the policy maker with the same problem that the student of Kant is presented with, if a compatibility of major values and mural responsiveness are necessary for peace, then what is the peace minded policy maker to do with those whose values do not comply and those who will not respond in solidarity?