Comment on Obama's Speech

We can clearly see US liberal ideologies in Obama’s speech. Apparently, Obama believes that institutions can be a main cause of the world lasting peace, for he said explicitly in his speech that it became clear to victor and vanquished alike that the world needed institutions to prevent another world war. Also, he portrays US as a world leader who will introduce the world to a phase of peace and prosperity, for he mentioned the US led Marshall Plan and the United Nations. In this part, Obama actually interpreted US role as a hegemony which could act as a central government in international communities and thus can create a relatively peaceful international community for it solves the anarchy problem. In his speech, he said that The United States of America has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades.
Then he gradually brought his audience to the point of a gradual evolution in human institutions. In this way by building a strong international institution, he tries to solve the problem of anarchy. Actually, we can understand that institution as a UN with much more enforcement power than now.
From Obama’s speech, we can see that he defines peace with democratic countries. He believes that peace is unstable where citizens are denied the right to speak freely or worship as they please; choose their own leaders or assemble without fear. He explicitly said that America has never fought a war against a democracy. For those countries whose citizens do not have human rights, international institutions should promote human rights there. Yet we can turn this reasoning around. As the point we have read in the article by Barnett and Finnemore, whether we should see the promotion of human rights as a means or as an ends? There are some countries in Africa where there are killings caused by elections.