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liberalism recap
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- 1Liberalism's assumptions- individual over state
- states are all different
- popular sovereignty
- states are not the only major actors
- pluralist conception of IR
- suspicion of the state
- the state is at the service of the people, not the other way round, relatively benign view of humans
- favour strong international institutions - 2soft powerpower to use non coercive resources (economic wealth, cultural influence) or persuasion to get other groups to do what you want
- 3Ikenberry- liberal IR theory focuses on an international society that links states
- they are interdependent
- peace and cooperation is possible
- individual state characteristics matter a lot e.g. democracies don't fight democracies - 4Keohane (daddy of liberal IR theory)- realists neglect the political economy as an influence
- international organisations are important
- liberal institutionalism
- insists nature of political competition always determined by the way political organisations are constructed and how power is distributed between them
- institutions matter because they are resilient and resistant to change - 5Keohane and path dependence- once a certain path or policy is chosen and then pursued over time, it becomes progressively harder to alter that path
- PD is a concern for institutionalists because institutions usually do not change as much or as quickly as the preferences of policy makers
- increased numbers of IO, and increasing reliance of states on them, surely puzzling for neo realists?
- why would IOs exist at all in a world dominated by sovereign states? (Keohane)
- IOs help states to achieve collective gains, e.g. reducing transaction costs - 6logic of liberal institutionalism- we should have stronger institutions than we do now
- hint happened due to a global consensus on the desire for free markets
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- High School Certificate Politics FlashCards sobre liberalism recap , criado por Katie Best em 12-12-2017.
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- Katie Best · dez 2017
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