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    Liberalism, Conservatism, and Ideological Challenges to the Status Quo were topics covered in Chapter 4. Although high school I have heard of the term Liberalism, but I never understood what the term really meant. I learned that Liberalism is “an ideology that regards the individual as a rational being capable of overcoming obstacles to a better world.” Also, it “supports changes in the political and economic status quo.” John Locke an English philosopher is known for this form of American…

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    Liberally Speaking: Why Liberalism is Right for America written by Stephen J. Natoli is about the liberal view on the left side of the left-right political spectrum. One main idea of the book is to provide an educated view on the liberal side of politics and explain how an open mind can only make the "land of the free,” freer. Chapter three through five concentrates on what liberals believe. This includes: ethics, peace, equality, freedom, and science. These are just a few of the several…

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    Topic: Liberalism has become the dominant approach to international political economy since the end of the Cold War. Discuss the evidence that proves this dominance and also discuss the positives and the negatives of the liberalist orientation of the global economy. The discussion below is going to elaborate on the dominance of the Liberal in the international political economy (IPE) by expanding on the liberal approach, IPE and its elements, Liberal IPE perspective, the Cold War, positives…

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    For this summary essay assignment, I’ve chosen One World, Rival Theories by Jack Snyder and Liberalism and World Politics by Michael W. Doyle. One World, Rival Theories states the basics of all three major theories and gives a general idea of liberalism’s main points. Liberalism and World Politics on the other hand gives a detailed explanation of liberalism alone and continues to break down the theory into three separate categories. This helps to fill in some of the gaps in the first article as…

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    President Obama’s speech stressed the importance of the theoretical tradition of liberalism in America’s view of international politics. President Obama’s ideology of international affairs can be explained using Joseph Nye’s three strands of liberal thinking, which are economic, social, and political liberalism. However, although his speech is dominated by liberalist views, his policies are the creation of intellectual pluralism and therefore his liberalist views are mixed with the theoretical…

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    different theoretical lenses of liberalism and Ubuntu. Liberalism is often called “idealism” and describes how the world ought to be while pushing it in that direction(Zook 2017) Ubuntu theory is that “a person is who s/he is only because of the existence of others and because of his/her coexistence with them”(van der Walt, 108). Both theories have rather different origins, but liberalism and Ubuntu can be brought together to look at the same speech. In Obama’s speech, liberalism is best used to…

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    Liberalism In America

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    struggling in 1980, but it was to no similar degree of the Great Depression. As always, it is human to not be perfect and there will always be those less fortunate than others. Critics believed that the presence of liberalism in the United States was no longer needed. One main reason that Liberalism is no longer needed is because it was constructed and had amended policies to help America during the Great Depression. Due to the business cycle, the economy had been increasing greatly since the…

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    Liberalism In Iraq

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    Saddam’s dictatorship and establish a democratic state in the Middle East. Although in some instances realism can describe the invasion of Iraq, the theory of Liberalism best describes the invasion because of liberal notions such as collective security and the belief that cooperation can lead to beneficial outcomes to all involved. “Liberalism holds that human nature is basically good and that people can improve…

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    Mexican Liberalism

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    Though belief in the system of monarchy was present over much of Mexico from the 1700s to the early 1800’s, by 1867, the Mexican people ultimately rallied behind the principles of liberalism, leading to it’s full incorporation into Mexican Society. In order to understand the reason for this implementation, one must look at the popular ideologies held by the people of Mexico and it’s influence on their actions, during this time in which there was instability in their government. It is also…

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    American Liberalism

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    Similar to the mutually beneficial relationships of wild animals, liberalism is a theory founded on the principles of cooperation and relationships within an anarchic system. The animal kingdom, an undisputed anarchic system, exemplifies an institutionalized relationship between two species. A crocodile will allow an Egyptian Plover bird to clean its teeth, because their symbiotic relationship helps both of them in different ways. The crocodile ends up with a cleaner mouth and the plover bird…

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