Week 3 Liberalism

Question 1

Important names in liberalism

Answer 1

Kant: A federal contract between state would be required to abolish war: a permanent peace treaty.
Bentham: defend what Kant said, “between the interests of nations there is nowhere any real conflict”
Cobden: believed that “ the progress of freedom depends more upon maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

Question 2

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 2

the 28th president of US.
He suggested 14 points to spread peace all around the world though it is not realistic.
- he is the first president visited Europe.
*look at slide 5

Question 3

Robert Keohane and S.Nye

Answer 3

• the liberal conceptualization of the international system
• interdependence thesis.
• the conceptualization of states’ preference formation

Question 4

The Complex interdependence thesis

Answer 4

• Societies are connected through trans-governmental and transnational channel, hence states are not the sole actor of international politics and the state is not an unitary actor
• there’s no hierarchy of issues in the interstate relations, hence foreign policy is not predominated by security issue
• States overcome the security dilemma and military power can be used politically.

Question 5

Overall about liberalism

Answer 5

• peace is not natural but must be constructed
• domestic analogy- international governance must use the same procedures
  collective security rather than alliance system(collective defense)
• they teach what (ought to be) not just what is
• by pursuing self-interests, actors inadvertently promote public good
• Captalism is natural and inherently pacific (سلمي )
• Economic interdependence fosters peace

Question 6

what liberalism briefly

Answer 6

They say: thee world is competitive and Anarchy, and they want peace. they achieve peace by cooperation and trade, institutions

Question 7

liberals

Answer 7

1- Actors: Individuals, transnational actors and states.
2- interests: Peace
3- Source of interests: individual incentives.
4- they teach: what the world “ought to be”

Question 8

Liberalism in world politics

Answer 8

-Multinational Cooperation (MNC)
- International Governmental organization (IGO)
- Non- governmental organization (NGO)
See the examples on the slides