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This paper offers new evidence in support of an argument that suggests that East Asian way of keeping peace is developmentalist, anti-interventionist and anti-hegemonic and thus even more different from the existing Western prescriptions for peace than realized before. This argument is based on some new data on organized violence, conflict termination and discourses of protection and security and a comparison of current East Asia with other regions, and with its performance three decades before 1980.The article also investigates whether the East Asian recipes for peace and prosperity could offer global prescriptions. Again, based on data on global fatalities of organized violence, the conclusion is clear. The world could learn from East Asia: the recipes the long peace of East Asia is based on, as defined in this article, can be found useful also to the entire world.

The article discusses the market-oriented logic and the concept of distributive justice and tries to relate them with theories of exploitation. The author develops a humane, market-oriented concept implicitly expressed in the discourse of moderate liberal economic exchange. The conclusions this deductive study has attempted to bring forward are important. One is that distributional issues still have relevance in Western debate on North-South relations. Further, to sustain the fair distribution of benefits in North-South co-operation does not mean that the realities of market forces are ignored yet the principle of equal opportunities must be brought to the core of North-South co-operation if the Western, market-oriented ethics of international relations is to become just and humane. Članek proučuje in pojasnjuje tržno naravnano logiko in koncept distributivne pravičnosti glede na druge teorije izkoriščanja. Avtor razvije human, tržno naravnan koncept izkoriščanja, ki je implicitno izražen v diskurzu zmerne liberalne gospodarske menjave. Takšna deduktivna študija prinaša nekaj pomembnih sklepov. Eden med njimi je, da so vprašanja distribucije še vedno relevantna za zahodno razpravo o odnosih med Severom in Jugom. Avtor tudi ugotavlja, da nadzor nad pravičnostjo (poštenostjo) v razporeditvi koristi, ki izhajajo iz sodelovanja med Severom in Jugom, še ne pomeni ignoriranja realnosti tržnih zakonitosti vendar pa mora v procesih sodelovanja med Severom in Jugom veljati načelo enakih priložnosti, če naj zahodna, tržno- naravnana etika mednarodnih odnosov postane pravična in humana.