Realism And Liberalism: The Major Theories Of Globalization

Theories of Globalization Major theories of globalization are important to the governments that govern countries all around the world. The major theories fall into two main categories which are Realism and Liberalism. Neorealism and neoliberalism further separate these two, but they really are just the present day view upon these theories. These theories are all decided by numerous actions and how actions are dealt with. Realism is counter approach to the idealist’s idea of Utopia. Literally, the realist believe that their view is the real, lifelike view of the world where a powerful military is the number one prospect to have for a backup. In the first great debate against the liberalists, realism was proven the best out of these two, for they tried to understand the cause of war as opposed to thinking that there is a remedy to stop war (Baylis, 2014). Another point that was argued by the realists was that human beings are not rational like the …show more content…
Merely trying to create world peace, he stated this hope in a speech called his “Fourteen Points” (Baylis, 2014).Resulting in possibly the biggest failure of the liberals was this group nominated the League of Nations. By theory, this was a good thought, and if it was successful then the world would be a better place, but it just was not successful, and by the realist’s theory, world peace will never be achieved.The point of the League of Nations that sounded so positive was the fact of the collective security that dictated it. Because the thought of a collective security, such as that of the League of Nations, was such a great proposition, the United Nations was formulated after the failure of the League of Nations. Even though the United States did not join the League of Nations, they did join the United Nations, and soon became the