Student Feature – Theory in Action: Liberalism and American Imperialism
US relations with Mexico in the 1910s show how institutional and normative domestic structures restrained the use of violent power.
US relations with Mexico in the 1910s show how institutional and normative domestic structures restrained the use of violent power.
Liberalism is not a ‘utopian’ theory describing a dream world as it was once accused of being. It provides a consistent rejoinder to realism, firmly rooted in evidence.
The liberal-internationalist and technocratic-integrationist versions of globalization are too brittle to serve as viable, long-term sources of legitimacy.
A collection of resources introducing, and exploring, the International Relations theory of liberalism.
It has become generally assumed that ‘Liberal Peace Transitions’ offer a way out of local, civil, regional and international conflict, as well as complex emergences and development problems. All military, humanitarian, diplomatic, political, economic, and social, interventions since the end of the Cold War have been geared to this programme – with limited success.
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