Liberalism is together with realism and Marxism was one of the three core theories that dominated IR throughout 20th centuries or at least up to 1990s.
Liberalism had however a very bumpy entrance into the field. As we’ve seen in the previous lecture, the first debate between realist on the one hand and liberals on the other are basically blablabla liberalism for the former idealism, starting out to studying the world, how we would like it to be rather than how it really was like, etc.
And the consequence, liberalism was basically written out on the blablabla International Relations for several decades. Only in the 1960s and 70s wasn’t able to return and make an impact on the field. Only by adopting very strong scientific and behavioralist approach to international politics. However its core values have remained the same.
Intellectual background of liberalism started in the Age of Enlightment, in the late 17th century. When there was a whole range of political and economical, cultural, scientific changes in Europe which gave …show more content…
And it was something new the liberalism that was available during the 1st debate had already been based on this idea of commercial peace that if countries have a lot of trade between them, the cost of going to war with one another will rise. Keohane and Nye actually bring impact to this international relations with more modern and more scientific approach, where they are taking interdependence as a grown set of arrangement we now would call as globalization. And they show how the cost of warfare are related with the growth of globalization. Once again, their analysis has nothing to do with the nature of government or altruism is some form but rather with a purely calculation of cost and benefits. And their point being that under globalization, it’s going to be much harder for states to actually start
Liberalism had however a very bumpy entrance into the field. As we’ve seen in the previous lecture, the first debate between realist on the one hand and liberals on the other are basically blablabla liberalism for the former idealism, starting out to studying the world, how we would like it to be rather than how it really was like, etc.
And the consequence, liberalism was basically written out on the blablabla International Relations for several decades. Only in the 1960s and 70s wasn’t able to return and make an impact on the field. Only by adopting very strong scientific and behavioralist approach to international politics. However its core values have remained the same.
Intellectual background of liberalism started in the Age of Enlightment, in the late 17th century. When there was a whole range of political and economical, cultural, scientific changes in Europe which gave …show more content…
And it was something new the liberalism that was available during the 1st debate had already been based on this idea of commercial peace that if countries have a lot of trade between them, the cost of going to war with one another will rise. Keohane and Nye actually bring impact to this international relations with more modern and more scientific approach, where they are taking interdependence as a grown set of arrangement we now would call as globalization. And they show how the cost of warfare are related with the growth of globalization. Once again, their analysis has nothing to do with the nature of government or altruism is some form but rather with a purely calculation of cost and benefits. And their point being that under globalization, it’s going to be much harder for states to actually start