Liberalism & FP Flashcards
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What is Liberalism
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- concerned with the freedom of the individual
- Importance of moral freedom (right to and duty to be treated equally)
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The Liberal Zone of Peace
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- Generally peace between liberals since 18th
- Liberal states, in conflicts, generally end up on the same side
3
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Laissez-Faire Liberalism
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- highly constrained role for state
- wide role for private property and market
4
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Welfare Liberalism
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- expanded role of state
- constricted role of market
5
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Liberal Imprudence
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- liberal states do make war/conflict
- invade weaker non-liberal states
- distrust powerful non-liberal states
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Liberalism in FPA
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- defined by concern for: individual rights, private property, representative government
- Share a zone of peace with other liberal states
- concern also for the international (but international does not override the state)
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Anarchy to Liberals
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- not a state of war / no zero-sum game
- instead, positive or negative-sum game
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First Image Lockean Liberalism
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- importance of life, liberty, and property / importance of individuals
- world in a state of ‘troubled peace’
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Second Image Commercial Liberalism
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- focus on domestic social forces
- representative government contributes to peace
- because in this people bear the cost of war
- cause for liberal zone of peace is commerce and interdependence therein
- People are: individualistic, rational, egoistic
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Third Image Kantian Liberalism
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- Peace achieved under three conditions
- Representative Republican Government
- Commitment to peace based on respect of Uni. rights
- Possibility of social and economic interdependence
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Liberal Strategy in the World System
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- So that liberal community may grow
- Preserve
- protect community and manage tension among liberal market economies
- Expand
- ‘city on a hill’ expansion
- Preservation
- preserve union between liberal states for strategic value and for hope of a peaceful world
