This part of the research will focus on the relationships between the concepts stated in the previous framework. As it was already stated that domestic policies are sufficient for foreign policies, it is also to be proven true that foreign policies are adequate for the initiation, formulation, and implementation of domestic policies. This study will, therefore, be grounded on Andrew Moravcsik’s Liberal Theory of International Politics and Robert Putnam’s Logic of Two-Level Games. It has always been a struggle to formulate a theory on international relations that would deviate from an ideology. Moravcsik (1997) suggests, in his study on Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory on International Politics, that it is of great necessity to
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His first assumption focuses on the Primacy of Societal Actors at the unit level. Moravcsik states that the important players in international politics are those in the private sector, who are rational and are reluctant to take risks, and those who participate in politics to encourage expression of interests which are limited by the lack of resources, clash of benefits, and differences in impacts made by society. This assumption provides that the unit of this liberalist international relations theory is the societal actor, which provide varied interests and points of contentions other than the political realm. These actors are then classified into their ideological similarities and differences, socio-economic status, and political power. These interests are then advanced through political discussions and collective action. In this case, the …show more content…
Moravcsik says that states constitute much of the members of the citizens where the essence is established from the preferences and interests from those in the domestic land. This assumption implies that there are various influences on the formulation of policies and the interests of the societal actors being one of those. State preferences are rooted from organizations, groups, and coalitions airing out their interests towards the political actor, the state. There has always been the presence of a persistent society in wanting their interests to be addressed by the state. The state, as a representation of the nation, does not envelope every interest of every societal actor, thus, causing missteps along policy making. States, in the liberal sense and not from the perspective of the realists and the institutionalists, “pursue particular interpretations and combinations of security, welfare, and sovereignty preferred by powerful domestic groups enfranchised by representative institutions and
His first assumption focuses on the Primacy of Societal Actors at the unit level. Moravcsik states that the important players in international politics are those in the private sector, who are rational and are reluctant to take risks, and those who participate in politics to encourage expression of interests which are limited by the lack of resources, clash of benefits, and differences in impacts made by society. This assumption provides that the unit of this liberalist international relations theory is the societal actor, which provide varied interests and points of contentions other than the political realm. These actors are then classified into their ideological similarities and differences, socio-economic status, and political power. These interests are then advanced through political discussions and collective action. In this case, the …show more content…
Moravcsik says that states constitute much of the members of the citizens where the essence is established from the preferences and interests from those in the domestic land. This assumption implies that there are various influences on the formulation of policies and the interests of the societal actors being one of those. State preferences are rooted from organizations, groups, and coalitions airing out their interests towards the political actor, the state. There has always been the presence of a persistent society in wanting their interests to be addressed by the state. The state, as a representation of the nation, does not envelope every interest of every societal actor, thus, causing missteps along policy making. States, in the liberal sense and not from the perspective of the realists and the institutionalists, “pursue particular interpretations and combinations of security, welfare, and sovereignty preferred by powerful domestic groups enfranchised by representative institutions and