section_path: Theories/Trans-national solidarity
section_name: Trans-national solidarity
paragraph_text: Trans-national solidarity
  
  Many "idealist" thinkers about international relations – e.g. in the traditions of Kant and Karl Marx – have argued that the key to peace is the growth of some form of solidarity between peoples (or classes of people) spanning the lines of cleavage between nations or states that lead to war.
  
  One version of this is the idea of promoting international understanding between nations through the international mobility of students – an idea most powerfully advanced by Cecil Rhodes in the creation of the Rhodes Scholarships, and his successors such as J. William Fulbright.
  
  Another theory is that peace can be developed among countries on the basis of active management of water resources.