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Feb 18, 2018 · Democratic peace theory is perhaps the strongest contribution liberalism makes to IR theory. It asserts that democratic states are highly unlikely to go to war with one another. There is a two-part explanation for this phenomenon. First, democratic states are characterised by internal restraints on power, as described above.
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Dec 11, 2021 · Liberal theory met with serious setbacks between the world wars, as the Great Depression of the 1930s and the coming of World War II called into question its vision of what might be accomplished in world politics.
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There is no canonical description of liberalism. What we tend to call liberal resembles a family portrait of principles and institutions, recognizable by certain characteristics – for example, a commitment to individual freedom, government through democratic representation, rights of private property, and equality of opportunity – that most liberal...
In contradistinction to the pacific view of popular government, Thucydides and later Niccolò Machiavelli argue that not only are free republics not pacifistic, they are the best form of state for imperial expansion. Establishing a republic fit for imperial expansion is, moreover, the best way to guarantee the survival of a state. Machiavelli’s repu...
Modern liberalism carries with it two legacies. They affect liberal states, not separately, according to whether they are pacifistic or imperialistic, but simultaneously. The first of these legacies is the pacification of foreign relations among liberal states.14During the nineteenth century, the United States and Great Britain engaged in nearly co...
Much of the debate on the democratic peace or liberal pacifism isolates one feature of democracy or liberalism and then tests it against the historical record. It is thus worth stressing that Kant’s theory rejects that approach.24He presents each of the three “definitive articles” as necessary conditions that and only together establish a sufficien...
The New Deal nurtured politicization, and then World War II brought it to maturity. One of the war’s most significant doctrines is especially pertinent to this part of the discussion: compulsory military service. The Selective Service Act of 1940 was the nation’s first peace-time draft.
This paper touches upon different theories that are used by scholars to review the effects and causes of war through Realism and Liberalism. Hegemonic Stability Theory will be slightly elaborated in order to present the perspective of liberalism.
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Nov 26, 2019 · However, all postwar liberal theories share a few basic concepts that allow them to be called “liberal”: (1) states are the primary actors in the international system, but they are not unitary—domestic politics matters; (2) there are factors beyond capabilities that constrain state behavior; and (3) states’ interests are multiple and changing.
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Liberalism is often seen as the characteristic political philosophy of the modern West. Its central principles – freedom, (human) rights, reason, progress, toleration – and the norms of constitutionalism and democracy are deeply embedded in Western political culture.
