LIBERALISM

(rules, norms, and institutions; not just power and states)

Why has liberalism succeeded domestically, but failed internationally?
What causes war, if not anarchy? [The three 'images' of liberalism (box 6.1)]
Imperialism, the failure of the balance of power, undemocratic regimes
Liberalism pulls in two directions: its commitment to freedom in the economic and social spheres leans in the direction of a minimalist
role for governing institutions, while the democratic political culture required for basic freedoms to be safeguarded requires robust and
interventionist institutions.

Enlightenment liberalism: Kant and Bentham

Free trade as a pathway to world peacewhat are the pros and cons of this argument?
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and the early roots of liberal institutionalism
The League of Nations and collective security
How is self-determination both necessary and challenging, from a liberal perspective?
Why did the League of Nations fail, and how does the veto power of Security Council members in the
new United Nations charter address this problem?
Neo-Liberalism also highlights the centrality of non-state actors and the role of international regimes
Keohane/Nye on transnational corporations & intl. non-governmental organizations (INGOS)
Can you think of other important actors?
What are some examples of international regimes?
Ikenberry and the (hegemonic) liberalism of privilege
(n.b.: Skipping over for now: chapter 7 and the neo-neo debate)
Michael Doyle, Liberalism and World Politics (skipping Machiavelli)
Schumpeter's liberal pacifism, Machiavelli's liberal imperialism, and Kant's liberal internationalism
Schumpeter on 'objectless imperialism': a war machine, warlike instincts, and export monopolism
Modern (nineteenth century) imperialism, therefore, rests on an atavistic war machine, militaristic
attitudes left over from the days of monarchical wars, and export monopolism
For Schumpeter, people under capitalism are democratized, individualized, rationalized, such that no
democracy would pursue a minority interest and tolerate the high costs of imperialism [and war]. What's
wrong with this argument? (82)
Kant's liberal internationalism and the pacific federation (on Perpetual Peace)
What is the democratic peace theorem on display here? What is its flip side, as Doyle points out? (that
liberals have indeed established a separate peacebut only among themselves)
Aggression by the liberal state has also characterized a large number of wars such as?
Liberal states invade weak nonliberal states and...distrust...powerful nonliberal states.
The three definitive articles of peace
1. That the civil constitution is republican (85)
2. That liberal republics form a pacific federation, or union
3. That a cosmopolitan law of universal hospitality will operate in conjunction with the pacific union
without a teleology, such as the promise of perpetual peace, the complexity of history would overwhelm
human understanding...peace is an ethical duty because it is only under conditions of peace that all men
can treat each other as ends, rather than as means to an end.