Economic liberalism

There are six categories of threats identified by the United Nation are economic and social threats, inter-state conflict, internal conflict, nuclear, radiologic, chemical, and biological weapons, terrorism, and transnational organized crime. While each of these categories are of some importance different theories give more importance…

and individual welfare. Conservatism was born in the turn of the 18th century. It was a response and an opposite of liberalism. Conservatism back then was supported by the wealthy and well off, such as the king, nobility and church. Conservatives wanted a strong leader instead of democracy. Liberalism was born in the 18th century. It is the opposite of conservatism. When liberalism was born, most of the liberalists were middle class. Liberals supported the ideas of enlightenment, as you can…

Frontline’s Climate of Doubt was a compelling film showing how climate change has become more of a political issue than an environmental one. The film followed correspondent John Hockenberry around the United States as he interviewed several individuals that included scientific specialist, conservative republicans and liberal democrats who may or may not have been holding a position in office at that point in time. He asked simplistic questions surrounding the issue of climate change that could…

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…

one of the most controversial ideas in political science. Many philosophers have written on this concept, and each of them interprets it differently. In this essay, I focus on Thomas Pogge’s conception of sovereignty that is largely influenced by liberalism. Pogge argues for a multi-layered scheme where borders could be redrawn more easily. According to him, sovereignty should be dispersed vertically instead of concentrating it at one level – the state. However, Pogge’s conception of…

political repression was occurring and they started speaking against it. The others were the rise of nationalism and the hardships the working class were experiencing in the 1840’s. Different political views, such as nationalism, socialism and liberalism affected the progress and ultimately lead to their failure. Although most revolutions failed…

political conception of justice is, of course a moral conception… justice as fairness framed to apply to what I have called the ‘basic structure’ of a modern constitutional democracy. By this structure I mean such a society’s main political, social, and economic institutions, and how they fit together into one unified system of social cooperation. In other words, Rawls believes that a democracy will most efficiently function when each citizen develops their own moral conception of justice and…

delves into the aspects so the speech that brings to light the liberal philosophy held by Obama. The elected president endeavors to inculcate and foster ideas of equality and liberty into the mindset of the American people. At the backdrop of an economic crisis, Obama’s inauguration speech had to…

Since the 1930’s, Modern Liberalism, exemplified in FDR’s New Deal, has brought about great change to the United States through student activism and supreme court rulings. However the conservative backlash that was sparked in 1970’s that continues to this day can be famously summed up with the words of Ronald Reagan “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party; it left me.” As Conservatives grew more hesitant of presidential leadership in a political system that had grown vastly, Liberals had become…

In Sandel’s “Liberalism and the Keynesian Revolution,” he argues that the New Deal betrays the republican tradition by now placing emphasis on economic rights in its support of the “Keynesian Revolution” therefore, more emphasis is placed on contemporary liberalism’s view that freedom depends on self-government with respect to individual choice and not on the republican tradition’s formative, virtuous citizens. For both Sandel and Fairfield, “postwar prosperity depended on building and economy…