By a “state of war” Kant did not mean continuous violent conflict but rather the continuous threat of such conflict. Each state will naturally fear other states, and this fear will often result in war. This condition will continue so long as there exists no international mechanism to adjudicate disagreements among states, so Kant called for
war in American English. (wɔr) (verb warred, warring) noun. 1. a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air. 2. a state or period of armed hostility or active military operations. The two nations were at war with each other. 3. Intra-state violent conflict, i.e. wars between one non-state actor and a state within the existing state’s borders; Extra-state or extra-systemic violent conflict between one non-state and one state actor outside of the existing state’s borders (as for instance in the war of Western NATO states against the Taliban in Afghanistan). The difference between the 5-year pre-war mean and the 10-year post-war mean of a state’s revenues/GDP is also estimated. The revenues and GDP data are obtained from Banks Cross-Polity Time Series dataset (Banks, 2011 ) and are supplemented by data from the Economy Watch Statistics and Indicator Data Base. 16 53CKn1o. 460 172 407 110 418 187 236 370 155